About
Ruth Sunderland MA, FRSA
Award-Winning Business Editor, Consultant & Speaker
Acclaimed business journalist, broadcaster, and senior editorial executive with a distinguished career in national media. She has built a reputation for agenda-setting interviews, exclusive scoops, incisive features, and impactful campaigns that have influenced business, policy, and public debate.
Ruth is Director of the Christopher Nieper Foundation, whose mission is to revive forgotten towns through education and employability.
Named Business Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club in 2022, Ruth is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Business Ambassador for the Royal Osteoporosis Society. She holds an MA with Distinction from Newcastle University.
Her career highlights include serving as Group Business Editor of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday, where she led a seven-day national business news operation, and as Business & Media Editor of The Observer. Ruth has interviewed many of the world’s most influential figures, including Bill Gates, Mark Carney and Andrew Bailey, and is widely respected for her newsroom leadership, investigative journalism, and agenda-setting campaigns.
Today, as Founder of Roseberry Media, Ruth brings her editorial expertise and strategic insight to clients across business and public life.
Accolades & Honours
Business Journalist of the Year – London Press Club, 2022
Fellow – Royal Society of Arts
Freeman – City of London
MA with Distinction – University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Business Ambassador – Royal Osteoporosis Society
North Yorkshire Landmark
Roseberry Topping
Long before it became a much-loved landmark of my childhood, Roseberry Topping was known as Othenesberg - Odin’s Hill. To the Norse people who came to Yorkshire centuries ago, it was a place of mystery and power. Over time, the name softened on local tongues becoming Roseberry, but its presence remained commanding as ever. Its silhouette was shaped by nature and by industry, when ironstone mining beneath its slopes caused a dramatic collapse in 1912. What might have been loss instead created its unique character. Today, framed by bluebells in spring and golden leaves in autumn, Roseberry Topping stands as proof that even in fracture there is strength and beauty.