Oliver Duff (British editor)
Oliver Duff | |
|---|---|
| Born | Oliver Duff Born in 1983 |
| Nationality |  British |
| Education | Cedars Upper School St John's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Editor i newspaper |
| Employer | The Independent |
| Title | Editor |
Oliver Duff has been the Editor of the i newspaper since June 2013, the youngest editor of a national newspaper.[1]
He was formerly a reporter,[2] gossip columnist and news editor, before becoming Executive Editor at The Independent, i and The Independent on Sunday, running the newsroom.
Early career
He is an ex-Cedars Upper School (in Leighton Buzzard) student.[3]
Brought up in Bedfordshire, he wanted to be an explorer, then Arsenal goalkeeper, before finally deciding on journalism, when he started writing for his local paper, 'The Leighton Buzzard Observer'.[3] He read Politics at St John's College, Cambridge (2001-2004),[1] He became editor of the student paper, Varsity in 2002.[4][5]
Before starting work in 2002, in newspapers as an admin assistant at The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer.[1] Then in 2003,he got a staff job as an admin assistant on the Independent newsdesk “writing odds and sods after hours” before moving up to a staff reporter role.[1] Simon Kelner then offered him the job of editing the Pandora diary column.[1]
He then worked as a travel writer (which he occasionally still does),[6] and news editor. Although he was fired as a bar critic after three weeks.[7] He (and an investigative team or reporters) were nominated for the Cudlipp Award (by British Press Awards) for excellence in popular journalism.[8]
Until 2008, when he became deputy home news editor, shortly before Roger Alton replaced Simon Kelner as Independent editor in April 2008.
He was a member of the team who launched the i newspaper in October 2010 and he has covered the Olympics, two general elections, the London terror attacks and the phone hacking scandal.[9]
In 2010 Duff moved up to news editor and after a year in that job he was made executive editor under Chris Blackhurst (who became Independent editor in July 2011).[1]
Duff was made editor of i at the same time that Amol Rajan became editor of The Independent, in June 2013.[1]
He writes an editor’s letter every day in the newspaper.[10] Topics include nature and science, politics and diplomacy.
Other notes
He lives in central London with his partner. Away from work, he is a member of the Royal Geographical Society[11]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Ponsford, Dominic (10 December 2013). "Youngest Fleet Street editor bullish about future print and reveals i makes a lot money". pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ Interview by Oliver Duff (27 June 2005). "Andrew O'Connor: My Life In Media - Media - News". The Independent. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ a b Devlin, Amanda (9 October 2013). "Superhero vs a super waste of our money!". Leighton Buzzard Observer. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ Hollander, Gavriel (24 June 2013). "Simon Kelner proud his protégés Rajan and Duff have become Indy editors". pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ "SPS - Oly Duff". joh.cam.ac.uk. 2004. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ Duff, Oliver (31 January 2014). "Sri Lanka: A fragile beauty that crosses old frontlines". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Dumitriu, Sam (10 April 2014). "Interview: i editor Oliver Duff". mancunion.com. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ "Haul of British Press Award nominations for The Independent". The Independent. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Duff, Oliver (9 October 2013). "Why I decided to go Back to School". The Independent. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ Johnson, Jasmine; Myers, Rebecca (12 March 2014). "Keeping an i on Oliver Duff". theboar.org. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ "Oliver Duff". speakers4schools.org. 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.