Anne Spackman was appointed Editor-in-Chief, Times Online in June 2006. Prior to this appointment she was Managing Editor of The Times. She joined The Times in 2002 as property editor, where she created the property section Bricks and Mortar and won Property Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2003 and 2004. She played a leading role in the conversion of the newspaper from broadsheet to compact format.
 
Her career began in North-East England as a trainee with Thomson Regional Newspapers, training on the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle, then the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough. She joined the Sunday Times as a news reporter in 1984. She was one of the founding journalists of The Independent, launched in October 1986, working first as a news reporter, then News Editor, then Weekend Editor of the paper.
 
In 1993, with two small sons, she gave up her Weekend Editor role to become the paper’s property correspondent, working from home. She worked from home for nine years, switching from The Independent to The Financial Times in 1996, where she was property correspondent and later property editor. In 2002 she returned to full-time work at The Times.
 
For 15 years she was a trustee of the charity One Parent Families, for which she was awarded the OBE in 2002. She continues to be a Vice-President of the charity and is also a trustee of the Camelot Foundation.