Caroline Marland obituary (opens in new tab)

Managing director of Guardian Media Group who was the first woman to hold such a senior post on a national newspaperCaroline Marland, the former managing director of Guardian Media Group and the first woman to hold such a senior post on a national newspaper, who has died aged 80, was to a considerable extent the person who saved the Guardian financially in the 1980s.It was largely Marland’s initiative to wrest much of the job advertising market from the Times and Telegraph during that decade....