William Kay
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William Kay is a British
financial and business journalist
.
where he attended St Marylebone School
and Westminster City School
. In 1965 he was awarded an Open Styring Scholarship to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
(PPE) at The Queen's College, Oxford
. In 1968 he received a BA
(Hons
) and subsequently a MA
.
In 2006 Kay accepted an invitation to emigrate to the United States
as "an alien of extraordinary ability". He lives in Pasadena, California
, where he continues to write a weekly column for The Sunday Times
of London. He lives in Pasadena with Lynne Bateson, also a journalist, and has two adult sons, Andrew and Ben, in London.
and the now-defunct London Evening News
in the early years of his career, and has been freelancing
, writing books and working for UK national newspapers since then.
The British edition of Who's Who
records that William Kay has been the City Editor, Financial Editor, Money Editor or Personal Finance Editor of five British newspapers: The Times
, The Sunday Times
, The Independent
, The Independent on Sunday and Mail on Sunday
. Kay has also worked on the Daily Telegraph (1977–79) and the short-lived NOW!
news magazine.
In 2009 Kay published his first novel, Pasadena Parade, a murder mystery set in Pasadena, California.
United Kingdom
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financial and business journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
.
Family and education
William Kay grew up in central LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
where he attended St Marylebone School
St Marylebone School
St Marylebone C of E School is a specialist secondary school for girls in Marylebone, London. It specialises in Performing Arts and Maths & Computing. In the sixth form, boys can also attend....
and Westminster City School
Westminster City School
Westminster City School is a voluntary aided Christian school for boys in Westminster, London. The school has 800 students on its roll, and it offers 105 of 130 places each year to boys practising the Christian faith in the Anglican dioceses of London and Southwark. The other 25 spaces are...
. In 1965 he was awarded an Open Styring Scholarship to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Philosophy, politics, and economics is a popular interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate degree which combines study from the three disciplines...
(PPE) at The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
. In 1968 he received a BA
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
(Hons
Honors student
An honors student is a person recognized for achieving high grades or high marks in their course work.Honors students may refer to# Students recognized for their academic achievement on lists published periodically throughout the school year, known as honor rolls, varying from school to school, and...
) and subsequently a MA
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
.
In 2006 Kay accepted an invitation to emigrate to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
as "an alien of extraordinary ability". He lives in Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...
, where he continues to write a weekly column for The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
of London. He lives in Pasadena with Lynne Bateson, also a journalist, and has two adult sons, Andrew and Ben, in London.
Career
Kay was on the staffs of the London Evening StandardEvening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
and the now-defunct London Evening News
Evening News (London)
Evening News, formerly known as The Evening News, was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987. It became highly popular under the control of the Harmsworth brothers. For a long time it maintained the largest daily sale of any evening newspaper in London...
in the early years of his career, and has been freelancing
Freelancer
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...
, writing books and working for UK national newspapers since then.
The British edition of Who's Who
Who's Who (UK)
Who's Who is an annual British publication of biographies which vary in length of about 30,000 living notable Britons.-History:...
records that William Kay has been the City Editor, Financial Editor, Money Editor or Personal Finance Editor of five British newspapers: The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
, The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
, The Independent on Sunday and Mail on Sunday
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
. Kay has also worked on the Daily Telegraph (1977–79) and the short-lived NOW!
NOW! (1979-81 magazine)
NOW! was a British newsmagazine founded by entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith, partly as a vehicle for his right-wing political opinions.It was established in 1979, taking advantage of the market opportunity created by the closure of The Times and The Sunday Times during a labour dispute...
news magazine.
In 2009 Kay published his first novel, Pasadena Parade, a murder mystery set in Pasadena, California.
Awards
- 2002: WincottHarold WincottHarold Wincott CBE was a British economist and journalist.Wincott edited the Investors Chronicle for twenty-one years and was a columnist for the Financial Times. He was awarded a CBE in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think-tank...
Foundation, Personal Financial Journalist of the Year Award. - 2005: Headline Money, Columnist of the Year (consumer media) Award.
- 2005: Association of British Insurers, Lifetime Achievement Award.
Books
- 2009: Pasadena Parade, a novel. Booksurge. ISBN 9781439251126.
- 1999: Lord of the Dance, the story of Sir Gerry RobinsonGerry RobinsonSir Gerrard Jude "Gerry" Robinson is an Irish businessman. He is the former non-executive Chairman of Allied Domecq and the ex-Chairman/Chief Executive of Granada.-Early life:...
. Orion. ISBN 0752810480. - 1994: The Bosses: The Growth Industries of the Future and the Men Who Lead Them. London: Piatkus. ISBN 9780749913588.
- 1993: (ghostGhostwriterA ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written...
). Charity Appeals: The Complete Guide to Success, by Marion Allford Dent. JM Dent in association with the Institute of Fundraising Managers. Paperback: ISBN 9780460861915. - 1991: (editor) The City and the Single European Market. New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
: Woodhead-Faulkner. ISBN 0859416623. - 1990: (editor) Clay and Wheble's Modern Merchant Banking: A Guide to the Workings of the Accepting HouseAccepting houseAn accepting house is a primarily British institution which specializes in the acceptance and guarantee of bills of exchange thereby facilitating the lending of money. They now have taken on other functions as the use of bills has declined, returning to their original wider function of merchant...
s of the City of LondonCity of LondonThe City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
and Their Services to Industry and Commerce. AbingtonAbington, CambridgeshireThe Abingtons are a community in South Cambridgeshire consisting of two villages: Little Abington and Great Abington, south east of Cambridge.-History:...
, CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
: Woodhead-Faulkner. ISBN 9780859416023. - 1989: (ghost) Nightmare: Ernest SaundersErnest SaundersErnest Walter Saunders is a former British business manager, best known as one of the "Guinness Four", a group of businessmen who attempted to fraudulently manipulate the share price of the Guinness company. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but released after 10 months as he was...
and the Guinness AffairGuinness share-trading fraudThe Guinness share-trading fraud was a famous British business scandal of the 1980s. It involved an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a £2.7 billion take-over bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers...
, by James Saunders. Arrow BooksRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
. ISBN 0099744805. - 1987: Battle for the High Street. London: Piatkus. ISBN 9780861886210.
- 1987: (editor) The Stock Exchange: a Marketplace for Tomorrow. London: SterlingSterling PublishingSterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of nonfiction titles, with more than 5,000 books in print. Founded in 1949, it publishes a wide range of nonfiction and illustrated titles in categories which include art, biography/autobiography, body/mind/spirit, crafts, culinary, do-it-yourself,...
. FolioBook sizeThe size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from "folio" , to "quarto" and "octavo"...
: ISBN 0902570307. - 1986: The Big Bang: An Investor's Guide to the Changing City. London: Weidenfeld & NicolsonWeidenfeld & NicolsonWeidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It is a division of the Orion Publishing Group.-History:...
. ISBN 9780297789840. - 1985: Tycoons: Where They Came From and How They Made it. Salem, New HampshireSalem, New HampshireSalem is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 28,776 at the 2010 census. Salem is a marketing and distributing center north of Boston, with a major amusement attraction, Canobie Lake Park, and a large shopping mall, the Mall at Rockingham Park.- History :The...
: Salem House. ISBN 9780881621594. - 1983: A-Z Guide to Money. London: Constable. ISBN 0094671605.