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Oliver Duff was formerly a reporter, 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. ==Early career== He is an ex-Cedars Upper School (in Leighton Buzzard) student. 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'.〔 He read Politics at St John's College, Cambridge (2001-2004),〔 He became editor of the student paper, ''Varsity'' in 2002. Before starting work in 2002, in newspapers as an admin assistant at The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Observer.〔 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.〔 Simon Kelner then offered him the job of editing the ''Pandora'' diary column.〔 He then worked as a travel writer (which he occasionally still does), and news editor. Although he was fired as a bar critic after three weeks. He (and an investigative team or reporters) were nominated for the ''Cudlipp Award'' (by British Press Awards) for excellence in popular journalism. 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. 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).〔 Duff was made editor of i at the same time that Amol Rajan became editor of The Independent, in June 2013.〔 He writes an editor’s letter every day in the newspaper. Topic include nature and science, politics and diplomacy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oliver Duff (editor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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