Award-winning journalist Felicity Green is to deliver this year’s annual Hugh Cudlipp lecture.

She will address the London Press Club at the Guardian Newsroom Museum on Thursday, November 20.

Felicity remains the first and only woman to serve on the main board of a national newspaper group.

She joined the Mirror Group in the early 1960s, and was assistant editor of both the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror before being appointed to the main Mirror Group Board as director of promotions and publicity.

Hugh Cudlipp, the son of a commercial traveller, was born in Cardiff in 1913. He became a junior reporter on the Penarth News. At 15 he was a reporter on the Cardiff Evening Express, at 16 a reporter on the Manchester Evening Chronicle, at 17 a sub-editor on the Evening Chronicle and at 19 features editor of the Sunday Chronicle.

Cudlipp joined the Daily Mirror as assistant features editor in 1935. He was appointed editor of the Sunday Pictorial in 1938.

After the war, where he worked to expose Hitler as the tyrant he was, contrary to his image portrayed in some other newspapers, Cudlipp returned to the Sunday Pictorial, but was sacked after a dispute in December, 1948. Lord Beaverbrook, had been waiting for this opportunity and promptly employed Cudlipp on the Sunday Express.

He was later editorial director of the Daily Mirror Newspapers Group.

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