John Kampfner
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John Paul Kampfner (born 27 December 1962) is a British journalist who was editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman between 2005 and 2008.[citation needed] During that time he took the magazine's circulation to a 30-year high,[citation needed] winning a string of awards including Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.[citation needed]
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[edit] Early life
Kampfner was educated at Westminster School, a boys' independent school in London and at The Queen's College, Oxford where he did a BA in Modern History and Russian.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
Kampfner was a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Berlin for nearly a decade, for Reuters from 1984-99[citation needed] and the Daily Telegraph from 1989-91.[citation needed] Subsequently he became a political correspondent and commentator for the Financial Times[citation needed] and the BBC,[citation needed] and the political editor of the New Statesman[citation needed] before he became editor.[citation needed]
He became Chief Executive of Index on Censorship in 2008.[citation needed] He is also Chair of Turner Contemporary,[citation needed] the largest visual arts project in the south-east of England outside London[citation needed] (in Margate).
Additionally, Kampfner has contributed several BBC documentaries, his two-part series on the Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, The Dirty War,[citation needed] won him Journalist of the Year[citation needed] and Film of the Year from the Foreign Press Association in 2002.[citation needed]
[edit] Publications
As an author Kampfner's works include Inside Yeltsin's Russia: Corruption, Conflict, Capitalism,[citation needed] a biography of former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook,[citation needed] and a study of Tony Blair's interventionist foreign policy Blair's Wars.[citation needed] His most recent[when?] publication released in early September 2009 was titled Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money And Lost Our Liberty and is an analysis of the seeming abandonment of liberty in the names of democracy and capitalism.[citation needed] The book was shortlisted for the Orwell Book prize in May 2010.[citation needed]
[edit] Personal life
Kampfner married the BBC journalist Lucy Ash in 1992.[citation needed] The couple have two children and live in London.[citation needed] He is a big Chelsea fan[citation needed].
[edit] References
- KAMPFNER, John International Who's Who
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| Preceded by Peter Wilby |
Editor of the New Statesman 2005-2008 |
Succeeded by Jason Cowley |
