Viscount Rothermere, 37, is Chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust, having succeeded his father, the 3rd Viscount Rothermere, after his death in 1998.

Lord Rothermere was educated at Gordonstoun School, Scotland, and at Kent School, Connecticut, USA. In 1991 he graduated from Duke University, USA, with a degree in history.

His newspaper career began at the International Herald Tribune in Paris, where he helped establish a financial publication, International Fund Investment. At the beginning of 1993 he returned to the UK and joined the Mirror working in Glasgow for the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, working as a reporter, sub-editor and in the promotions and marketing department and as part of the management team. In 1995 he joined Northcliffe Newspapers Group, the regional newspaper division of Daily Mail and General Trust, becoming Managing Director of Courier Newspapers, publishers of the Kent and Sussex Courier, The Seven Oaks Chronicle and The East Grinstead Courier.

Early in 1997 he joined the Evening Standard in London, taking over as Managing Director in December. In 1998 Lord Rothermere was appointed Deputy Chairman of Teletext, a subsidiary of Harmsworth Media, and Chairman of Associated Newspapers and Associated New Media, before taking up the chairmanship of Daily Mail and General Trust.

Lord Rothermere is married to Claudia and has four children, Vere (born 1994), Eleanor (born 1996), Theodora (born 2001) and Iris (born 2004).

The Daily Mail and General Trust was founded by the Harmsworths and Lord Rothermere is the fifth member of the family to be Chairman of the Company. The three main newspapers published in the
United Kingdom are the flagship Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard, as well as Metro, which is distributed free of charge in London and 7 other cities around the UK, Ireland on Sunday and Loot. The Group also publishes 17 daily and 53 weekly regional titles, and has global interests in radio, exhibitions, electronic and specialist publishing ventures, including international financial publishing through Euromoney Institutional Investor.