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My Take
Rusbridger interests me as a study in nerve. Twenty years editing The Guardian, including its handling of the Snowden disclosures, meant repeatedly choosing publication over the comfort of powerful adversaries. That is the part of the job most editors quietly avoid, and he did not flinch. What I admire just as much is the lightness afterward: he stepped into running an Oxford college, then back into magazine editing, never clinging to a single title. Born in Lusaka, schooled in England, decorated with the Right Livelihood Award, he strikes me as a journalist who treated holding power to account as a long, unglamorous discipline rather than a pose.
Overview
Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953) is a British journalist who served as the editor-in-chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015, and the Prospect magazine from 2022 to 2025. He was also the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Rusbridger became editor-in-chief of The Guardian in 1995, having been a reporter and columnist earlier in his career.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Alan Rusbridger
- Name (Japanese)
- アラン・ラスブリッジャー
- Reading
- あらん・らすぶりっじゃー
- Born
- December 29, 1953 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Origin
- Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- journalist / editor-in-chief / literary critic / head teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Magdalene College
Awards & achievements
- 2014 Right Livelihood Award
- European Press Prize
- Ortega y Gasset Awards
- 2016 Carey McWilliams Award
- 2016 honorary doctorate
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.