Alan Rusbridger

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alan Rusbridger
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 29, 1953(1953-12-29)
Age	71
Birthplace	Zambia
Country	Zambia
Birth City	Northern Rhodesia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Alan Rusbridger Biography

Alan Rusbridger is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 29, 1953 in Zambia, Northern Rhodesia, Zambia. British journalist who is best recognized for having served as editor-in-chief of The Guardian during the period of Edward Snowden and Wikileaks. He is also recognized for his children’s books, his work as a television critic for The Observer, and as Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford.

He is known for having made the decision to destroy hard drives containing information leaked to The Guardian by Edward Snowden in August of 2013.

Rusbridger was born in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, a protectorate (now Zambia), the son of B. E. (née Wickham) and G. H. Rusbridger, the Director of Education of Northern Rhodesia. 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. During the vacations of his first two years at university, he worked for the Cambridge Evening News as an intern, and accepted a job offer from the newspaper after graduation. He stayed with the Evening News until 1979.

In 1982, he married the educationalist Lindsay Mackie. She helped found the educational charity FILMCLUB. They have two daughters (born 1983 and May 1986). His daughter Isabella Rusbridger is also a journalist and is known professionally as “Bella Mackie” to distinguish herself from her father.

He was born and raised in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. He married educator Lindsay Mackie in 1982 and together they founded the educational charity program FILMCLUB.

Alan Rusbridger Net Worth

Alan Rusbridger is one of the richest Journalist from Zambia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alan Rusbridger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge where he studied English Literature. While attending the school, he worked for their Cambridge Evening News program as an intern. He stayed with the paper after graduating until 1979 when he was offered a position at The Guardian as a reporter.

He was one of the recipients of the Right Livelihood Award in 2014. He is also known for being a talented pianist and has performed Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 for the More4 program.

Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953) is a British journalist, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian.

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Seen early in his editorship as a modernising new broom, he commented in June 1997 shortly after the election of Tony Blair’s first New Labour government that the “old” Guardian: “opposed lots of things the Tories did which we’d now think weren’t terribly bad in retrospect … I mean, a lot of the trade union stuff doesn’t seem as horrendous now as it seemed at the time.” From around 1997, he oversaw the launch and development of the newspaper’s website, initially known as Guardian Unlimited.

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Alan Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Zambia. Alan Rusbridger celebrates birthday on December 29 of every year.

In September 2005 The Guardian responded to the tabloid re-launches of The Times and The Independent by moving from a broadsheet format to the “Berliner” format, which is common in the rest of Europe. The print edition of the newspaper still accounted for about 75% of the company’s revenue around 2012. In a profile of Rusbridger though, published in the New Statesman at the end of May 2012, former newspaper editor Peter Wilby cast doubt on whether Rusbridger’s enthusiasm for online journalism, freely available without a paywall, and the large amount of money invested by the group, would ever gain a return or ensure the long-term survival of the newspaper.

Top Facts about Alan Rusbridger

1. Alan Rusbridger is a British journalist and editor.
2. He was the editor-in-chief of The Guardian from 1995-2015.
3. During his tenure, The Guardian won numerous awards for journalism.
4. Rusbridger oversaw the newspaper’s transition to digital media.
5. He has written several books, including “Breaking News” and “Play It Again.”
6. Rusbridger is a prominent advocate for press freedom and human rights.
7. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his work in journalism.
8. Rusbridger is currently the principal of Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University.
9. He serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
10. Rusbridger has been recognized as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.