Anne Harris: Robert Pitt knows how to put a price on values

Harris was coming to the end of her time as editor of the Sunday Independent when Pitt took over as chief executive of INM; they struck up an unlikely rapport

Robert Pitt and I got on well in the months that our careers crossed. So when he said, once or twice at meetings, that he saw no sign of interference at INM by Denis O’Brien, I immediately got his subtext: why was I making such a fuss? I didn’t try to tell him. I felt he had not been there long enough to hear it.

For the long, hot summer of 2014, Pitt ...