Jonathan Steafel

Work Highlights

Spear's 500, Top Recommended 2025, Reputation Managers - https://spears500.com/adviser/24100/jon-steafel

Practice Areas

Managing Partner Jon Steafel spent more than 25 years in senior editorial leadership in UK media including a decade as Deputy Editor of the Daily Mail, Britain’s preeminent campaigning paper.

He launched and sustained a series of high-profile campaigns across a diverse range of causes. Battles won include justice for Stephen Lawrence and the victims of the Omagh bombing, banning single use plastic bags and funding prostate cancer research.

He is now an advisor to leaders across numerous businesses, institutions and international organisations as well as private individuals. Specialising in reputation counsel, litigation communications strategy and navigating crises, he is known for his calm, clear thinking which benefits those he advises and shapes the campaigns he builds. Jon has a long list of clients who owe their maintained or rehabilitated reputations to his counsel, always carried out with the utmost discretion and effective strategic thinking.

Jon features in the Spear’s 500 list as a Top Recommended Reputation Manager. Their profile recognises his “deep knowledge of the workings of journalism, campaigns and the media landscape, as well as many contacts, which he uses to advise on media management, reputation issues and public relations” and that he is “greatly valued for his leadership and internal communications ability”.