Graham Cole

Graham Cole worked in local and regional newspapers in the UK and abroad across three decades from newsrooms in Kent, Newcastle, Cardiff and Bahrain as reporter and in the editor's chair and then as an editor for the UK's national news agency in Fleet Street. He edited his first local newspaper in his home town before completing a social studies degree at the University of East Anglia. His career as a reporter led to him covering more than a dozen local authorities and he was the municipal...See more

Graham Cole worked in local and regional newspapers in the UK and abroad across three decades from newsrooms in Kent, Newcastle, Cardiff and Bahrain as reporter and in the editor's chair and then as an editor for the UK's national news agency in Fleet Street. He edited his first local newspaper in his home town before completing a social studies degree at the University of East Anglia. His career as a reporter led to him covering more than a dozen local authorities and he was the municipal correspondent of his local evening newspaper which he went on to edit in later life. This poacher turned gamekeeper when he became involved in local authority communications in Medway and then in Kent during the last ten years. See less