{{Short description|British magazine executive and editor (born 1951)}} {{about|the British journalist|the American socialite and wife of Barron Hilton|Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Tessa Hilton | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|02|18}} | birth_place = | occupation = Journalist and editor }}
'''Tessa Hilton''' (born 18 February 1951) is a British magazine executive and former [[newspaper editor]].
After failing to start a career in [[acting]], Hilton trained as a [[journalist]] with the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' before becoming a news reporter with the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]''. She took several years out of the media when her children were born, but started freelancing articles about parenthood for magazines, then wrote the ''Great Ormond Street Book of Child Health''.<ref name="hughes">{{cite news|first=Scott |last=Hughes|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/cv-tessa-hilton-deputy-editor-the-express-1267120.html |title=CV: TESSA HILTON Deputy editor, The Express|newspaper=[[The Independent]]date=14 April 1997}}</ref>
In 1985, Hilton returned to regular employment at ''Mother'' magazine, then in 1987 she moved to the ''[[Today (UK newspaper)|Today]]'' newspaper. She was promoted to Features Editor and then to Assistant Editor before moving to become editor the "Femail" section of the ''Daily Mail''.<ref name="hughes" />
Hilton became Assistant Editor at ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' in 1994, then Editor of the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' briefly in 1995, before moving to become Deputy Editor of the ''[[Daily Express]]''. At the ''Express'', she launched the ''Saturday'' magazine, then the Sunday ''Boulevard'' magazine.<ref name="hughes" /> In 1999, she became Editor-at-Large at ''[[Woman & Home]]'' magazine.<ref>"[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/media-the-word-on-the-street-1106114.html Media: The Word on the Street]", ''[[The Independent]]'', 13 July 1999.</ref>
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{{start box}} {{s-media}} {{succession box|title=Editor of the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]''|years=1995–1996|before=[[Paul Connew]]|after=[[Amanda Platell]]}} {{succession box|title=Deputy Editor of the ''[[Daily Express]]''|years=1996–1998|before=?|after=[[Chris Blackhurst]]}} {{end box}}
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