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Sheila Black (6 May 1920 – September 2007) was women's editor of the Financial Times and the first female journalist to work for the paper.

Early life
Black was born in Ceylon, where her father was a businessman. She was educated in Dorset in the United Kingdom before attending finishing school in Switzerland. Although her parents intended for her to marry a member of the Foreign Office or a high ranking military official she choose to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became an actress.

Career
Black was hired by the Financial Times in 1959. She created the paper's How to Spend It page in 1967. The page would go on to become a pull out magazine with accompanying website some time after she left the paper.

Personal life
Black married twice. She had two children, a son and a daughter with her first husband. In 1964 Black was one of ten British women who swam the English Channel. The group planned to wear their swiming costumes whilst entering and exiting the water but otherwise to swim nude.

Whilst working at the Financial Times Black had an affair with the paper's editor, Gordon Newton.