Zoe Linkson

Zoe Linkson joined PA Media as Deputy Picture Editor in 2018. She began working in the industry at Rex Features in 1991, before joining the Sunday Times Arts and Style.  In Scotland she had stints on both the Sunday Mail and Sunday Herald, before returning south as a freelance then as staff with the Daily Mirror, and the Daily Mail. hat's something exciting your business offers? Say it here.

 Picture Editor ,The Independent . Alan Hamilton

I started my journalistic career as messenger for a Glasgow publishing agency First Press Publishing in 1994

FPP was a small agency that published the Rangers News & Celtic View as well as the Old Firm match day programmes including Rangers first foray in the newly created Champions League.

In the days before digital pictures I would travel between the two grounds speaking to the editors picking up the pictures they wanted in their publication before heading back to the office to scan them in.

In 1996 I stayed in the office to concentrate on the magazines and other publications as FPP grew.

After 3 years I left to join the Scottish Daily Mail picture desk as assistant picture editor working under the guidance of the much missed Andy Allan.

I progressed to deputy picture editor on both the Scottish Daily Mail and the Scottish Mail on Sunday.

In 2002 I received a phone call asking if I wanted to join the Daily Record picture desk an offer I could not refuse.

So in June 2002 I joined as assistant picture editor becoming deputy picture editor in 2010 overseeing not just The Daily Record but The Sunday Mail and our regional titles around Scotland. Since October 2023 I have been the Picture Editors for the Independent.

I have been working in regional news for over 25 years. I was a photographer for several local weekly news titles across North Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire before moving over to The Star in Sheffield where I became Group Picture Editor for a number of Johnston Press titles. 

I have been Head of Audio Visual for the Yorkshire Post now for the last five years, a role which involves not just photography, but video projects too. I manage a team of five award winning photographers and I ensure their diary jobs are always creative so they can get inspired to produce amazing images to showcase in the Yorkshire Post. As a daily broadsheet title, our pages are still very much designed around photography, not just images from our local team. We cover national news in the Yorkshire Post and it is a huge privilege to view all of the agency images each day. 

Alongside the day job I have had the pleasure of teaching students for their NCTJ photography module at Nottingham Trent University, and Video Journalism at Sheffield College. 

Picture Editor ,Daily Telegraph.

Jane Sherwood is the Managing Editor, News EMEA at Getty Images where she is part of the team that creates Getty Images editorial newswire output for the region. Jane began her career 30 years ago as a receptionist at Rex Features and progressed through a series of picture desk roles on the Sunday Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Express, News of the World and Sunday Times to become the Picture Editor of the Sunday Express newspaper.  Leaving that role for Getty Images in 2015 she says “I wanted to work where photography was front and centre and investment in the medium was paramount".  I am well known to the judging panel of these awards and am thrilled to be included again this time. The Picture Editor’s Guild Award celebrates the very best of the UK’s press photography 

 Matthew Fearn graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 1998 with a BA Honours degree in Journalism and Politics.  In 1998 he won Photographer of the Year at the NUS/Guardian Student Media Awards.  Upon graduation he began a nine year career at the Press Association, joining as a bulletin board operator, becoming a staff photographer in 2000 and coming off the road to take the Deputy Picture Editor's role in 2007.  He sas been Picture Editor at The Telegraph from  January 2012 until his departure for The Times newspaper in 2024.