- Alan Rusbridger was born on the 29th of December 1953
- He is a British journalist, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian
- He took up the post in 1995, having been a reporter and columnist earlier in his career
- Rusbridger stood down from the post at the end of May 2015 and was succeeded by Katharine Viner
- He is now the Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for “building a global media organisation dedicated to responsible journalism in the public interest, undaunted by the challenges of exposing corporate and government malpractices.”
- When Rusbridger was five, the family returned to Britain and he was educated at Lanesborough Prep School, Guildford, where he was also a chorister at Christ Church, and Cranleigh School, a boys’ independent school in Surrey
- At Magdalene College, Cambridge, he read English Literature
- He then joined The Guardian as a reporter, and subsequently wrote the paper’s diary column and later became a feature writer
- In November 1985, Rusbridger had a brief stint as a Royal reporter following the Prince and Princess of Wales around Melbourne, Australia. Fascinated by gadgets, at this stage he was already using a Tandy word processor and an early (slow) modem to file stories back to London
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