Inside Story: Married to the job
Along with weddings and university, the workplace is the most likely place where we will meet our future partners. So it's no surprise that the media landscape is thickly covered with power couples, whose personal synergy is matched by their mutually advantageous professions. Here we list the leading pairs - and a few who are no longer media partners
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Your support makes all the difference.Charles Saatchi collector and founder of ad agency M & C Saatchi & Nigella Lawson TV presenter
Sarah Raven presenter BBC Gardeners' World & Adam Nicolson Daily Telegraph columnist and author
Neil Dawson advertising executive at TBWA & Judy Mitchem advertising executive at Lowe
Elisabeth Murdoch independent TV producer & Matthew Freud chairman of Freud Communications
Rachel Johnson, Daily Telegraph columnist & Ivo Dawnay, PR and media consultant
Charlie Parsons & Lord Alli, founders of Planet 24 TV
Georgina Capel, literary agent & Anthony Cheetham, publisher, former CEO of Random Century and Orion
Rebecca Nicolson, publisher Short Book Company & Tom Baldwin, political correspondent of The Times
James Le Fanu, Daily Telegraph medical correspondent & Juliet Annan, publisher, Fig Tree Books
Christine Costello, chief executive Scottish Media Group - Out of Home & Alan Jackson, Times journalist
Marie Oldham, joint MD Media Planning Group & Andrew Oldham, joint MD Viacom outdoor
Kirsty Wark, presenter Newsnight & Alan Clements, independent TV producer
Muriel Gray, TV presenter and Sunday Herald columnist & Hamish Barber, independent TV producer
David Goodhart, editor of Prospect & Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times columnist
Sarah Miller, editor of Condé Nast Traveller & Deyan Sudjic, architecture critic of The Observer
Louise Chunn, editor InStyle & Anthony Andrew, Observer columnist
Sue Summers, film producer and journalist & Philip Norman, author and journalist
Charlie Burgess, managing editor of The Independent & Anne Spackman, managing editor of The Times
Vicki Woods, Telegraph columnist & Frank Walker, Mirror Group executive
Stephen Quinn, publisher of Vogue & Kimberley Quinn, publisher of The Spectator
Henry Porter, Vanity Fair contributing editor and novelist & Liz Elliott
Jancis Robinson, wine writer for The Financial Times & Nick Lander, food writer for The Financial Times
Rowan Pelling, sex columnist in the Independent on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday & Angus McKinnon, freelance journalist
Caroline Michel, managing director of William Morris Agency & Lord Evans, former publisher and chairman of the Arts Council
Matthew D'Ancona, deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph & Sarah Schaefer, former political journalist and director, Europe Program, Foreign Policy Centre
Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff & Sarah Helm, author and journalist
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times columnist & Christina Appleyard, Mail on Sunday executive
India Knight, novelist and journalist & Andrew O'Hagan, novelist and journalist
Tom Bower, journalist and biographer & Veronica Wadley, editor of Evening Standard
John Preston, TV reviewer for Sunday Telegraph & Susannah Gross, literary editor of Mail on Sunday
Sarah Sands, editor of Sunday Telegraph & Kim Fletcher, editorial director Telegraph Group
Anthony Lane, film critic of the New Yorker & Allison Pearson, columnist in the Evening Standard
Sue Douglas, president of new business at Condé Nast & Niall Ferguson, historian, TV presenter and columnist
Will Self, novelist and journalist & Deborah Orr, Independent columnist
Ben McIntyre, Times columnist & Kate Muir, Times columnist
Jon Ronson, comedian and TV presenter & Elaine Patterson, arts editor of Metro
Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent & Sally Ann Lasson, cartoonist
Matthew Norman, Independent columnist & Rebecca Tyrell, Sunday Telegraph columnist
Andrew Marr, host of Sunday AM & Jackie Ashley, Guardian columnist
Ian McEwan, novelist and journalist & Annalena McAfee, editor Guardian Review
Anne McElvoy, deputy editor of the Evening Standard & Martin Ivens, deputy editor of The Sunday Times
Derek Morris, vice-chairman Zenith Optimedia & Tracey Reid, HR director, Capital Radio
Sarah Kennedy, associate editor of Marie Claire & Duncan Edwards, CEO of National Magazines
Claudia Winkleman, TV presenter & Kris Thykier, vice-chairman of Freud Communications
AA. Gill, TV reviewer of the Sunday Times & Nicola Formby, model and editor-at-large for Tatler
Lucinda Chambers, fashion director of Vogue & Simon Crowe, BBC radio producer
Gary Farrow, CEO of PR firm The Corporation & Jane Moore, Sun columnist
Conrad Black, former owner of the Telegraph Group & Barbara Amiel, columnist
Camilla Rhodes, head of News International magazines division & Clive Milner, managing director of Times Newspapers
Exes
Francis Wheen, deputy editor of Private Eye & Joan Smith, Independent on Sunday columnist
Bel Mooney, Times agony aunt & Jonathan Dimbleby, TV presenter
Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer & David Dimbleby, TV presenter
Julie Burchill, author and Times columnist & Tony Parsons, author and Mirror columnist
Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue & Paul Spike, author and journalist
Maureen Freely, freelance journalist & Paul Spike, author and journalist
Catherine Bennett, Guardian colunmist & David Sexton, Evening Standard books editor
Charlie Wilson, former MD of Mirror Group & Sally O'Sullivan, Editorial Director, Highbury House Communications plc.
Charlie Wilson, former MD of Mirror Group & Anne Robinson, TV presenter
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