Alan Rusbridger

Alan Charles Rusbridger ( born December 29, 1953 in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia ) is a British journalist. He is editor and publisher of the British newspaper The Guardian.

Life

Alan Rusbridger was in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), the son of B. E. and G. H. Rusbridger, head of the educational system of Northern Rhodesia, was born.

When Alan Rusbridger was five years old, the family returned to the United Kingdom. He went to Guildford and Cranleigh in the boarding school to school. In Magdalene College, Cambridge, he studied English literature and worked in the holidays for the Cambridge News. After graduating, he worked there until 1979.

In 1982 he married the educationalist Lindsay Mackie. They have two daughters (* 1983 and * 1986)

Profession

According to the Cambridge News he went to The Guardian as a reporter and wrote, among other things, the daily column. In November 1985, he had a brief stint as a royal reporter and followed at this time the Prince and Princess of Wales in Melbourne, Australia. At that time he already use to send data to a modem to London. In 1986, he left the Guardian to television critic for the Observer to be, before he went to Washington to be the editor of the short-lived London Daily News in 1987.

After he returned to the Guardian, he launched the " Weekend" supplement 1988. 1995 he became editor of the Guardian. In the following years he dared the contents of the Guardian first on the Internet (Web -first principle) and then publish in the newspaper.

Others

Rusbridger has written three children's books and is co-author of the BBC drama Fields of Gold by Ronan Bennett.

In Germany Rusbridger is particularly through the surveillance and espionage affair, triggered by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, become known.

Rusbridger is a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. Since 2004 he is Chairman of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Rusbridger supports the international non-profit climate change campaign 10:10. He is also an avid amateur pianist.

Awards

Rusbridger in 2009 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lincoln and Kingston University in January 2010.

In 2010 he was selected the annual Andrew Olle Media Lecture in Australia to hold.

Film portrait

Works

• The Coldest Day in the Zoo, 2004, ISBN 0-14-131745-0
• Play It Again: Why Amateurs Should Attempt the Impossible, 2012, ISBN 0224093770