Alan Rusbridger

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.

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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)

Origin

Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia

Occupation

journalist / editor-in-chief / literary critic / head teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

University

Magdalene College

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Right Livelihood Award
• European Press Prize
• Ortega y Gasset Awards
• 2016 Carey McWilliams Award
• 2016 honorary doctorate

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Rusbridger
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q921140

Tags

• Lusaka Province
• journalist
• editor-in-chief
• literary critic

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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