Oliver Duff (editor)
| Oliver Duff | |
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| Born | Oliver Duff Born in 1983 |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality |  British |
| Education | Cedars Upper School St John's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Editor i newspaper |
| Employer | The Independent |
| Home town | Leighton Buzzard |
| Title | Editor |
Oliver Duff was formerly a reporter,[1] gossip columnist and news editor. Then became Executive Editor at The Independent, i newspaper and The Independent on Sunday, running the newsroom.
He was the appointed Editor of i in June 2013. He is the youngest editor of a national newspaper.[2]
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),[2] 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 Telegraph and The Observer.[2] 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.[2] Simon Kelner then offered him the job of editing the Pandora diary column.[2]
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).[2]
Duff was made editor of i at the same time that Amol Rajan became editor of The Independent, in June 2013.[2]
He writes an editor’s letter every day in the newspaper.[10] Topic include nature and science, politics and diplomacy.
Other notes
He lives in central London with his partner. Away from work, he's a member of the Royal Geographical Society[11] and a keen scuba diver.[6]
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| Preceded by | Editor of i June 2013–present |
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