The Printing Charity – Governance
Currently The Printing Charity has 10 Trustees who are drawn from all walks of life but sharing a common interest – that is a connection to the printing industry and a desire to help those from the industry for whom life has become difficult whether through economic, social or emotional issues.
Murdoch MacLennan – our President for 2012
Murdoch MacLennan, Chief Executive Officer of the Telegraph Media Group Limited, officially took up this honorary post on 1 January.
He has been Chief Executive of the Telegraph Media Group since October 2004, having previously been Group Managing Director of Associated Newspapers. He worked in the Thomson Regional Newspapers offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle, South Wales and Reading. In 1982 he joined the Board of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail as Production Director, before taking senior positions in London with the Mirror Group and Express Newspapers. He later returned to Scotland in the early nineties as Managing Director of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail before taking the position with Associated Newspapers in the mid-nineties.
He was President of IFRA (the global technical association for newspapers) from 1997 – 2003 and became a vice president of the World Association of Newspapers. From 2005-07 he was Chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association.
He was also a Visiting Professor at the Business School at Glasgow University, a position he held for twelve years and recently he was appointed the Chancellor’s Assessor on the Court of the University. In 2008-9 he was a member of the Calman Commission which reported earlier in the summer of 2009 on the future of Scottish devolution. He was appointed Chairman of the Press Association in 2010.