David Summers is the editor-in-chief for Iconic Media in the Central region with overall responsibiltiy for nearly 30 newspapers and is editor of the Northampton Chronicle & Echo. A career working on newspapers at home and abroad, David first joined the Buckingham Advertiser in 1989 as a trainee reporter before working on The West Australian in Perth. His first editorship was of the Somerset Standard and Guardian in 1998, followed by The Bucks Herald and the Northampton Chronicle & Echo, which he joined in 2008.