Terri White

Terri is a journalist, author, broadcaster and event host based in Manchester.

She is a columnist for The Sunday Times and The Big Issue and freelance writer specialising in culture, class, mental health and VAWG for titles including The Guardian, British Vogue, New Statesman, Elle UK, Mr. Porter, EMPIRE, Sight & Sound and The Observer magazine.

With twenty-one years’ experience in magazine publishing, Terri was most recently Editor-in-Chief of EMPIRE and prior to that, Editor-in-Chief of Time Out New York. Terri was recently named Culture Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors 2022) and awarded the lifetime achievement award for contribution to magazines, The Mark Boxer.

Terri was named one of the 150 Female Leaders redefining the creative industries (The Dots) and a Folio Top Woman in US Media. Terri has spoken at events around the world, including Social Media Week New York; the Magazine Design Conference in Oslo; The Modern Magazine conference in London and Ad Week Europe, for which she conducted live interview sessions with Former Vice President Al Gore, actors Stanley Tucci and Richard E Grant and director Edgar Wright.

She was made a Fellow of the RSA (The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), in recognition of her work in journalism and the magazine industry and is a BAFTA member.

Her book, ‘Coming Undone: A Memoir’ was published by Canongate in July 2020.

It was named a Guardian Book of the Year, The iPaper's pick for Memoir of 2020 and is currently being developed for television by Bad Wolf, the production company behind His Dark Materials and I Hate Suzie. Terri is currently working on her first novel and second work of non-fiction.