Andrew Stephen Bower Knight (born 1 November 1939 in England) is an English journalist, editor, and director of News Corporation.
[citation needed] Knight worked at the City of London merchant bankers J. Henry Schroder Wagg from 1961 to 1963, and the Investors Chronicle from 1962 until 1966, when he joined The Economist magazine.
Knight approached Conrad Black for financing of the takeover, and controversially appointed Max Hastings, a historian and former BBC journalist, as editor of The Daily Telegraph.
Knight was Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of the London Daily Telegraph Group from January 1986 until October 1989.
[6] Knight resigned from the board of News Corporation in 2012, and was elected the Chairman of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd, a post previously held by Rupert Murdoch.