User:Penny McDonald

Penny McDonald (born London) is currently co-owner of the publicity agency, GCPR Ltd. previously to this she worked as International Managing Director at ARISE Media UK Limited, the celebrated bi-monthly ARISE Magazine, Events and TV News entity. She joined the company in February 2010 driving the magazine from a quarterly, 20,000 sales volume, to a 130,000 bi-monthly title. ARISE Magazine is now distributed to 27 countries.

Her career began at the Telegraph Newspaper Group. She was hired by the late Lord Deedes at the Telegraph and was subsequently rehired by Max Hastings when the Telegraph newspaper group was sold to Conrad Black. McDonald's passion for TV and the arts led her to become the TV and Radio Editor at the newspaper. She was quoted at the time as saying: "its's a little known fact that in those days the best read bits of the paper was the front page, then the sports section and then the TV and Radio pages." She is particularly grateful to the Telegraph for kick-starting her journalistic career and says she owes everything she has achieved to date to SEVEN men: her father, Phillip, Lord Deedes, Morrison Halcrow, Andrew Hutchinson, Sean Day-Lewis, Max Hastings and her husband of nineteen years, David Glencorse.

McDonald was head-hunted in 1995 by Sky to become the editor of their monthly magazine. She worked with Murdoch's legendary marketing team as well as with Elisabeth Murdoch. She says meeting Matt Groening was the highlight of her seven years at Sky.

Head-hunted for a second time, McDonald left Sky to become Group Editorial Director for the advertising agency Publicis. Within their Blueprint division, McDonald produced contract publications for ASDA, Homebase, Debenhams, Renault, Toni&Guy to name but a few. She said: "customer magazines is all about bringing brands to life through engaging content".

After three years at Publicis, McDonald joined the Outside Organisation as Managing Director. Working with the CEO, Alan Edwards, Penny worked with some of the giants of the music, sports and entertainment industries.

McDonald is married to broadcast journalist David Glencorse and together they have a son, Rory and a step-son Michael Keat.