Alan Rusbridger

co-presenter podcast Media Confidential

Alan Rusbridger is co-presenter (with Lionel Barber) of the podcast Media Confidential.

He is the former editor of Prospect Magazine (from 2021 to December 2025) and the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian (1995-2015). He was also the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford (2015-2021) and chaired the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (from 2016 to September 2025). Rusbridger has been a member of the Meta Oversight Board since 2020.

In 2014 he received the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, the European Press Prize and the Ortega y Gasset Award in Madrid and led the Guardian to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, shared with the Washington Post.

Rusbridger is the author of Play it Again (2014) and Breaking News (2018).

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