Early UK Career
After starting out on a backpacking tour of the world with her fiancee John Chenery, she arrived in London in 1985. Aiming to earn enough money to return home, she worked as a freelance for publications including The Observer Magazine and the Sunday Express.
Asked to join the start-up team of Today, she then joined Robert Maxwell's short-lived London Daily News, before returning under Today editor David Montgomery in 1987 as deputy editor. In 1993 she was appointed managing editor of Mirror Group, then moved in the same year to The Independent, initially as marketing director and then managing director.
In 1996 she joined the Sunday Mirror as acting editor, where she was the superior of Labour party's former director of communications, Alastair Campbell. In 1998 she was appointed acting editor of the Sunday Express, a position she was sacked from by Rosie Boycott following the publication of details of Peter Mandelson's gay relationship with his Brazilian partner.
In 1999, Platell published a novel Scandal, which focused on women in the newspaper industry. "Two editors, one paper, may the best woman win" was how the cover summarised the plot.
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