Will Payne is the director of digital (editorial) for The Sun and is responsible for the operation’s overall digital strategy. Before that, he was deputy digital editor, joining the Sun Online soon after it emerged from behind the paywall, helping to grow it from virtually a standing start to the biggest newspaper-owned website in the UK.
Towards the end of his time in that role, he moved to New York, where he launched the US operation in January 2020. He has previously worked as head of TV and associate TV editor at The Sun and has held senior titles for The Mail Online in New York and The Daily Mirror in London, which he joined in 2005 at the start of his career in newspapers.