Nicola Furbisher

Nicola is an award-winning journalist, writer, campaigner and director of Furbisher Media & Consulting Ltd. She is a former Editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post and Managing Editor of The Yorkshire Post and a former Group Editor of the Derbyshire Times series. Previous to this she was chief reporter of the Yorkshire Post and played a key role in exposing large-scale corruption at Doncaster Council: the so-called Donnygate affair. In her time as YEP Editor she launched important campaigns that achieved national acclaim including: Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic, and #SpeakYourMind, aimed at combating the perceived stigmas around mental ill health. Nicola is now a qualified psychotherapist and counsellor working in private practice.