Alan Rusbridger

Alan Rusbridger edited The Guardian from 1995 to 2015, the years in which it published the phone-hacking investigation and the Snowden files, and edited Prospect from 2022 to 2025. He was principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in between. His own books turn on sustained attention: Play It Again is an account of learning a Chopin ballade in a year of crisis, and Breaking News examines what happened to journalism when its business model collapsed.