Felicity Murray

Freelance editorial consultant

Honorary Member 

Member Since: 1997

Felicity began her career as a fashion designer before turning journalist. For nearly 20 years she edited fashion, beauty and home-style pages for national newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Mail and TVTimes. She also edited a number specialist consumer titles, such as Pins and Needles, Notions and Celebrity Knitting.

She entered business magazines in 1990 and has edited journals for industries as diverse as screen-printing, travel retail, home furnishings, and now packaging and wines and spirits.

She was editor of Packaging News for nearly 10 years during which time, in 1998, the British Society of Magazine Editors awarded her the prestigious title of Business Magazine Editor of the Year.

She left the magazine in October 2006 to edit Drinks International for a couple of years and, in May 2009, she founded and launched TheDrinksReport.com  – a global on-line magazine and e-newsletter for the wine and spirits trade – but, of course, with a special focus on packaging.  This website is now owned by Paragraph Publishing, for whom Felicity is now Chair of the World Drinks Design Awards, as well as a taste judge.

She is an honorary member of the International Packaging Press Organisation, for which she once acted as general secretary, and then treasurer.