Greg Wright
Deputy Business Editor @The Yorkshire Post
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WORK HISTORY
Deputy Business Editor @The Yorkshire Post
Leeds, GB
I\'m proud to be a long-serving member of The Yorkshire Post\'s award-winning business reporting team. I\'ve received 19 business journalism awards, including the Headlinemoney UK regional financial journalist of the year award in 2017, 2021 and 2025. I also received the Wincott nations and regions journalist of the year award in May 2025. My award-winning work has included an investigation into the loan charge scandal. Altogether, I\'ve been shortlisted for 38 journalism awards.Here are the opinions of the judges from the 02 Yorkshire & Humber Media Awards:\"Greg Wright’s mix of stories really impressed the judging panel. This, they said, was a journalist who was clearly very knowledgeable about his subject, with the skills to project complex issues in a readable fashion. News, features, opinions Greg did the lot. An all-rounder who’s as valuable to the Post as Ray Illingworth was to Yorkshire cricket.\"I\'m also an Honorary Colonel of the State of Kentucky and a long-standing financial supporter of Shakespeare\'s Globe and Huddersfield Town Women\'s Football team. To find out more visit
EDUCATION
University of Leeds
2:1, History Public Media
SKILLS
ABOUT GREG WRIGHT
I\'m an award-winning journalist who has worked for major regional newspapers, regional magazines, the Press Association and a pioneering news website which earned a place in The Guinness Book of Records. I\'ve been a staff journalist on The Yorkshire Post for more than 25 years. I\'ve also supplied business stories for the national newspaper, the i,(including an obituary of Sir Ken Morrison) and for our sister papers, The Yorkshire Evening Post and The Scotsman. I\'ve won 19 business journalism awards. I\'ve been ranked at 158 in Richtopia\'s list of the top 250 business journalists in the world. The Yorkshire Post\'s former business editor Mark Casci said:\"Greg is one of the finest journalists I have worked with in my career. He embodies the spirit of investigative journalism which The Yorkshire Post has been synonymous with for decades.\"James Mitchinson, the editor of The Yorkshire Post, said after I was voted Regional Business Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors\' Awards:\"A more worthy winner you will struggle to find. Technically brilliant; tenacious; compassionate.\"Kevin Hollinrake MP, the former co-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking, described me as \"one of a small number of journalists who have continually highlighted banking scandals and the need for truth and redress\". My role as The Yorkshire Post\'s deputy business editor has given me the opportunity to chair a wide range of political debates and business seminars with celebrities including Sir Clive Woodward.I\'ve interviewed the likes of Bob Geldof, George Osborne, Sir Keir Starmer, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Sarah Ferguson, Gordon Brown and Angela Rayner. I was one of the first journalists to write about the \"Calendar Girls\" of Rylstone WI, a story which inspired a major film.During the dotcom boom, I worked on the business desk at Ananova.com, the news service which featured the world\'s first virtual newscaster. I\'ve played a major role in developing The Yorkshire Post\'s award-winning business coverage and establishing our Excellence in Business and the Ward Hadaway Yorkshire Fastest 50 awards. I\'ve appeared on Sky News, the BBC news channel and BBC local radio to discuss business-related topics. I\'ve also been interviewed on talkRadio about the loan charge scandal and the economic success of Ilkley. I\'ve chaired a childcare coalition fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester and hosted The Yorkshire Post\'s Environment Awards, alongside Natalie Bennett, the former leader of the Green Party.
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