David Cameron’s sister-in-law leaves
London newspaper hot seat just 15 months after replacing George Osborne
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Emily Sheffield has left her role as editor of the Evening Standard after just 15 months in the
Job as the management at the London newspaper try to map out a financial future for the loss-making outlet.
Staff were told on Thursday morning that Sheffield, who had been absent for the last week, would be departing with immediate effect by “mutual consent”. Multiple sources at the news outlet said her time on the newspaper had been an unhappy one, with deep job cuts and financial pressures caused by the Covid pandemic exacerbated by a struggling digital strategy.