Charlotte Ross is a British journalist, and was acting editor of the Evening Standard from October 2021[1] until October 2022.[2] She followed Emily Sheffield as only the fourth woman to cover this job in the Kensington newsroom of the London free-sheet with a circulation of 493,000.[3] She joined the Evening Standard in 2006 after holding various executive roles in newspapers and magazines, becoming its deputy editor in 2017 and publisher in 2020 to combine editorial and commercial strategy.[4][5]