James Harding is the Co-founder and Editor of Tortoise Media, and before this was Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC, the world’s largest news organization. He was the Editor of The Times from 2007-2012, winning the Newspaper of the Year in two of the five years he edited the paper. He was previously The Times Business Editor, having joined from The Financial Times, where he worked as Washington Bureau Chief, Media Editor, and China correspondent opening the paper's bureau in Shanghai in 1996.
Tortoise Media was established in 2018.
Before co-founding Tortoise Media, Harding served as the Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC from 2013 to 2018