Stefano Hatfield is a British journalist and newspaper/magazine editor. He was born in Croydon and was educated at The John Fisher School and the University of Exeter. His parents are Italian and he is Roman Catholic. Hatfield edited thelondonpaper and Campaign, before his appointment as executive editor of The Independent in 2010 with responsibility for the other national daily in the group, the then new i, In 2013, he left i to become editorial director of the London Live news and current affairs TV station owned by Evgeny Lebedev, also proprietor of The Independent.