Patsy Chapman is a former British

British people

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 newspaper editor.

Chapman grew up in Romford

Romford

Romford is a large suburban town in north east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Havering. It is located northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan...

 and worked on the magazine Boyfriend before becoming a reporter with the Romford Times. She then joined The Sun

The Sun (newspaper)

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and was gradually promoted to become Deputy Editor. In 1988, she swapped jobs with Wendy Henry

Wendy Henry

-Early life:Wendy moved with her twin sister Sara from her mother's house in St Annes on Sea to Manchester in the late 1960s to live with their father, a Jewish market trader. By the age of eighteen, she had a child....

 to become Editor of the News of the World

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.

In 1990, Chapman chaired the group which drew up the code of conduct that the Press Complaints Commission

Press Complaints Commission

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subsequently enforced. She was then a member of the first Commission.

Chapman stepped down as editor in early 1994 due to illness.