Claire Beale

Editor

Career history
Media editor, Campaign, then deputy editor. Made editor in 2004.

Favourite ad
Hamlet photo booth

Favourite book
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Favourite album
Speak and Spell, Depeche Mode (the first album I really loved)

Favourite TV programme
Dragon’s Den

Most humbling experience
Being responsible for two children

Everyone’s saying
Has Beale got the best job in trade press journalism?

Latest articles from Claire Beale

Claire Beale: Redefining success as the pitch frenzy eases: 19 January 2012; How do you know when an agency's doing well?

Claire Beale: Adland needs principles as Britain goes on strike: 01 December 2011; David Jones, the global chief of Havas, is not a man shy of his own achievements.

Claire Beale: Time for more media and creative bonding: 24 November 2011; Something was not quite right at HMDG's fifth birthday party last week. There were media people there.

Claire Beale: Can John Lewis save adland this Christmas?: 17 November 2011; With the deepening economic gloom, it was probably inevitable that those chirpy Christmas ads that have come gamboling on to TV over the past few days have provided some sharp ammo for anti-advertising commentators.

Claire Beale: Risk-taking is essential to creative excellence: 27 October 2011; When we kicked off the judging for this year's Campaign Big Awards, there was a nervousness that there just might not be enough work to get excited about.

Claire Beale: Time to ditch the gloom and choose reinvention: 13 October 2011; Everyone keeps telling me it's all going to get much, much worse by the end of the year. Financially, emotionally and all the spaces in between.

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