Editor, The Observer

The Observer is Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper and has been keeping readers informed, entertained and sometimes infuriated for more than 200 years. It is celebrated all over the world for its liberal values and vigorous campaigning and is characterised by brilliant writing from the likes of George Orwell and Clive James, to Andrew Rawnsley and Tim Adams today.

Following extensive reader research,
The Observer was re-launched as a four section paper at the start of 2010. It now contains ‘more of what matters’, with a commitment to agenda setting news, review and analysis and more in depth coverage of the arts.

Thanks to a commitment to product development and unrivalled journalistic excellence, The Observer attracts over 1.3 million readers a week. Readers are highly engaged with the paper and value its intelligent, articulate, unbiased and culturally savvy content.

The Observer is part of Guardian News and Media and is owned by the Scott Trust, a unique press proprietor that monitors the progress of its holdings yet rarely intervenes. Not owned by shareholders, dictated to by a press baron or influenced by a political party, Observer journalists are free to present the truth as they see it. The Trust secures the continuity and editorial independence of The Observer.

The principles upon which the paper was founded in 1791 remain a core part of its character today. WS Bourne, the paper's founder, promised a paper “Unbiased by prejudice, uninfluenced by party... whose principal is independence.”

Source: NRS Oct 08 – Sept 09, GNM Engagement research 2008