Clive Milner to leave News International

News International today announces that Clive Milner, Chief Operating Officer, is leaving after 30 years in the company.

Clive has successfully delivered many of NI’s most ambitious programmes and also represented News International within the industry with great professionalism. He played a key role in the development of News International’s modern print plants at Broxbourne, Knowsley and Eurocentral which set a new standard for the industry. Among many other achievements, Clive pioneered a new and more efficient distribution network for the News International titles.

Rebekah Brooks, Chief Executive, News International, said: “I have long valued the energy and vision Clive brought to his many key roles with this company. He joined News International as a young man and epitomises a culture in which talent and hard work can rise to a commanding role at the top of the company, as he has done. I and my colleagues will miss him.”

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, said: “Clive has been my colleague at News International for 30 years and in that time I have had great regard for the skill with which he helped create the successful company we see today. Clive is a professional newspaperman of the highest calibre who has served both his company and the whole industry in the UK with distinction. We all wish him well in the future.”


News International Limited publishes The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and News of the World. In terms of growth, share, circulation and reader engagement, the Company’s titles are among the world’s most successful. Newsprinters prints the national titles and operates as a contract printing subsidiary for the three state of the art printing plants. Further brands which are part of the group include the Times Literary Supplement and milkround.co.uk. The News International group has an investment in fashion website BrandAlley.co.uk.

In 2007, News International Ltd became the UK’s first carbon neutral newspaper publisher. This was achieved by increasing energy efficiency, switching to renewable energy and combined heat and power and purchasing high quality offsets.