Ele Clark

Ele’s experience

Editor at Compare the Market

As Editor at Compare the Market, Ele leads a content team in producing engaging content for the website. She strives to bring all her experience in financial journalism to help people get the savings they deserve and take control of their finances.

Senior Editor at Which?

During her 11 years at Which? Ele held multiple Editor and Editorial Lead roles, before eventually becoming Senior Editor for money and shopping. She commissioned and edited a wide range of content covering everything from mortgage rates and credit card launches to shopping trends and money-saving tips. Her team’s work in bringing Which? campaigns to life through investigations and news helped secure real change in supermarket pricing practices, as well as industry awards.

Early career: writing and editing in Dubai

Ele began her career at Time Out Dubai, where she worked on everything from restaurant reviews to celebrity interviews, including Sesame Street’s Elmo (what would he make of the meerkats, we wonder?).

She then moved on to customer publishing company Hot Media, becoming Editor of Kanoo World Traveller, the Middle East’s highest-circulating travel magazine, and Jumana, a luxury lifestyle magazine. In these roles, Ele was responsible for planning monthly print output, commissioning freelancers and editing syndicated content. She travelled Asia in pursuit of the most exciting travel stories and styled fashion shoots in locations ranging from the desert to the world’s tallest building.

Ele Clark in the press...

Grocery Gazette: Supermarket convenience stores hike prices up 21%

September 2024

‘Which? retail editor Ele Clark said: “Unfortunately, many people are without easy access to transport or online deliveries, which leaves them reliant on smaller nearby stores.

‘Convenience stores may often be easier to travel to and handy for shoppers who need to stock up on a few essentials, but people who have to use them regularly will be spending significantly more over the course of a year than those with access to larger supermarkets.’

The i newspaper: First-time buyers not seeing benefits of mortgage rate cuts, experts warn

August 2024

Ele Clark, Senior Money Editor at Which?, said: ‘Many lenders chose to cut their rates before the Bank of England’s decision. The wait for cheaper mortgage rates will be particularly agonising for first-time buyers with small deposits, who are often the last people to benefit from rate cuts.

‘Many of the market-leading deals released by banks in recent days have been exclusively available to buyers with large deposits and homeowners remortgaging with significant equity in their property.’

BBC News: Warning over new supermarket spending 'challenges'

May 2024

‘Competition between supermarkets is fierce at the moment, with all of them shouting about the number of prices they've dropped,’ said Ele Clark, retail editor at Which?. ‘But the fact remains that, overall, food is still far more expensive than it was a couple of years ago.’