Career
He joined The Economist Magazine in 1966 on the international business and investment sections. From March 1968 to April 1970 he served in the Washington offices of the paper before returning to Europe to establish its European section and, in 1973, its offices in Brussels.
Knight was named Editor of The Economist in October 1974. Aged 34, he was the second youngest editor in the magazine's history, and tripled the magazine's circulation during his 11 years at the helm. He remained editor until 1986, and was named International Editor of the Year by World Press Review in June 1981.
He organised the takeover of the then floundering Telegraph Group in 1985, turning the ailing Daily Telegraph into the highest selling broadsheet in the UK. Knight approached Conrad Black for financing of the takeover, and controversially appointed Max Hastings, a historian and former BBC journalist, as editor of The Daily Telegraph. Knight was Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of the London Daily Telegraph Group from January 1986 until October 1989.
In March 1990, Knight joined News International plc as Chairman. Rupert Murdoch named Knight as his "backstop and successor" at News Corporation prior to Knight retiring from an executive position in June 1994, after a near-fatal skiing accident. He was appointed a Director of News Corporation on 31 January 1991 and became a non-executive director in 1994.
In July 2008 it was announced that Knight had resigned from the board of the Rothschild Investment Trust, on which he had served since 1996, and instead taken over as Chairman of J. Rothschild Capital Management Limited, RIT's main operating entity.
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