Editing Richard Ingrams (section)

==Career==
Along with several other [[Old Salopians]], including [[Willie Rushton]], Ingrams founded ''Private Eye'' in 1962, taking over the editorship from [[Christopher Booker]] in 1963. It was a classic case, he claimed on ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' in 2008, of the "old boy network". ''[[Private Eye]]'' was part of the [[satire boom]] of the early 1960s, which included the television show ''[[That Was The Week That Was]]'', for which Ingrams wrote, and [[The Establishment (club)|The Establishment]] nightclub, run by [[Peter Cook]]. When ''Private Eye'' ran into financial problems Cook was able to gain a majority shareholding on the proceeds of his brief but financially successful venture.

Ingrams vacated the editor's chair at the ''Eye'' in 1986, when [[Ian Hislop]] took over. In 1992 Ingrams created and became editor of ''[[The Oldie]]'', a now monthly humorous lifestyle and issues magazine mainly aimed at the older generation. As of 2005 he was still chairman of ''Private Eye'', working there every Monday,<ref name="McGibbon">Rob McGibbon [https://web.archive.org/web/20080526110922/http://www.robmcgibbon.com/index.php5?t=article&l=press-conference-withor-without-richard-ingrams "Richard Ingrams interview"], ''[[Press Gazette]]'' 15 December 2005.</ref> spending four days a week in London.<ref>Deborah Bosley [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517061245/http://www.newstatesman.com/200006260024 "Country living stinks"], ''New Statesman'', 26 June 2000. Retrieved on 3 August 2008.</ref>

He was television critic for ''[[The Spectator]]'' from 1976 to 1984, though he rarely showed much enthusiasm for the medium. He was a regular on the radio panel quiz ''[[The News Quiz]]'' for its first twenty years and contributed a column to ''[[The Observer]]'' for eighteen years.<ref name="McGibbon"/> In late 2005 he moved to ''[[The Independent]]'', considering ''The Observer'' to have gone downhill, particularly as a consequence of its support for the Iraq war.<ref name="McGibbon"/> In his 27 August 2011 column, he announced that he had been sacked by the newly appointed editor of ''The Independent''. Shortly after the death of [[Jimmy Savile]], Ingrams' ''The Oldie'' was the first publication to break the story of Savile's history of child abuse, after several national newspapers had been unwilling to print it.<ref>William Turvill [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/why-oldie-exposed-savile-child-abuse-i-just-thought-it-was-good-story "Why The Oldie exposed Savile child abuse: 'I just thought it was a good story'"], ''Press Gazette'', 2 April 2013</ref>

After a series of clashes with James Pembroke, owner and publisher of ''The Oldie'', Ingrams left the magazine at the end of May 2014 having resigned as editor.<ref name="Quinn"/> His most recent book{{when|date=November 2024}} is a biography of [[Ludovic Kennedy]].