On 3 July, Victoria English, co-founder and editor of MedNous, was named Editor of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers for her work and that of her late husband, William Ellington, in producing the business-science publication MedNous which has a dedicated readership across Europe and a presence in the US. In awarding the prize the judges said: “An Editor who has proven to be different, innovative and unique in their approach.” The ABSW was founded in 1947 to promote writing about science.
This award follows Victoria’s decades of experience as a journalist, first as a newspaper reporter in the US, and then as a foreign correspondent for Dow Jones & Co writing about business and finance in Europe. Victoria later joined Reuters in London as Treasury correspondent and subsequently shifted to a start-up project at Reuters to help create a news service for the National Health Service. When this venture was discontinued, she joined PJB Publications, now part of Informa Plc, where she edited two regulatory publications for the life sciences industry focusing on the work of the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency. MedNous and its parent company, Evernow Publishing Ltd, were founded in 2007. The ABSW award is to an individual. But this would not have been possible without the collective efforts of many people dedicated to the company’s guiding principle: to educate and inform.