Jean Gray, MA
Nursing Standard

Editor, Nursing Standard,
Editorial Director, RCN Publishing

Prior Editor’s Position: Deputy Editor

Years as Editor: Since 1998

Years in INANE: Since 2000

Accomplishment: Managing redesign to a new format, leading to an increase in circulation and improving quality.

Best: Leading a talented team; rapport with readers

Worst: Not enough time to do everything

Amusing: In the early days of email, copy did not always arrive complete. A section editor and I tried to work out what an author meant by saying the interviewee had "survived the ding". We tracked down the author and realized that half a sentence was missing. But the "ding" is a part of our office parlance.

3 words: Busy, focused, dogged

Strangest request: "Can you do my research for me, please?" (frequent request, although not phrased exactly like this).

If not editor?: Sports photographer

Relax?: Meals with family and friends, TV, cinema, reading, holidays, gym