Maria Breslin is editorial director at the Mirror, overseeing the brand’s digital publishing as well as its subscription service Mirror+ and the recently established Manchester-based Mirror North. She also takes the lead on the title’s editorial campaigns. Maria spent 20 years at the Liverpool Echo and was appointed the title’s first woman editor in July 2020.

She previously worked as a reporter at the Press Association’s Northern Bureau covering Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. She is on the board of the National Council for the Training of Journalists and is a member of the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee.