Observer appoints first female editor in over a century after controversial sale
Lucy Rock to oversee print edition of world’s oldest Sunday newspaper after Guardian sells title to digital start-up Tortoise
OK, new editor. As is normal there will be a few changes in contributors. That’s one of the ways you edit, by deciding upon who writes for the paper.
So, will William Keegan lose his column? That’s been echoes about Brexit from a previous business section editor for years now. And Will Hutton? He used to be editor himself and there’s a sort of omerta that says ex-such get to keep a column. But given the content of it in recent times I’d guess that it’s more about his GMG (or is it Scott Trust?) role. Which now isn’t an influence, is it?
“first female editor in over a century”
So they had a female editor in 1922? How progressive.
1900ish as it turns out.
Rachel Beer was part of the Sassoon clan that had fingers in all sorts of pies in the late 19th / early 20th Century. A local MP was a Sassoon around about that time.