John Lloyd (journalist)
John Lloyd (born 15 April 1946)[1] is a journalist, presently contributing editor to the Financial Times, [2] where he has been Labour Editor, Industrial editor, East European Editor, and Moscow Bureau Chief.
Background
Lloyd was born and raised in Anstruther, Fife, by his grandparents and mother, a beautician.
Career
Lloyd became a freelance journalist in 1996, and worked as a columnist for The Times from 1997 to 1998 and a contributor to the New Statesman until 2003.[3] In 2006 he co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is director of the Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy.
He is a member of the editorial board of Prospect, the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies, and is a columnist for La Repubblica of Rome. He has won awards for journalism, including Specialist Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards and Journalist of the Year in the Granada What the Papers Say Awards.
His books include Loss without Limit: the British Miners' Strike (with Martin Adeney,1985); Rebirth of a Nation: an Anatomy of Russia (1998), What the Media are doing to our Politics (2004), and Reporting the EU: News, Media and the European Institutions (with Cristina Marconi, 2014).
Political and other views
In the 1970s, Lloyd was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and later the British and Irish Communist Organisation. He then became a supporter of the Labour Party.[4] Lloyd also supported the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, believing Trimble could help bring peace to Northern Ireland.[5]
In the 1990s, Lloyd was one of several prominent members of Common Voice, a British group that advocated voting reform.[6] A strong supporter of the Blair government, he supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq,[7] as well as the Cameron ministry's 2011 military intervention in Libya.[8] In August 2014, he was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[9]
Personal life
He is married with one son, Jacob, from a previous marriage.
References
- ↑ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 35, 15 April 2014
- ↑ Profile: John Lloyd The Guardian Website.
- ↑ Wilby, Peter. ‘Rough trade’, New Statesman, 12 July 2004.
- ↑ John Lloyd, "Tony, the NS and me". New Statesman, 7 May 2007.
- ↑ Dean Godson, Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Collins, 2004, p.30, 253-4.
- ↑ John Lloyd and others, "Letters", The Guardian, 2 January 1992, p.18. Other signatories of the letter included Gerald Aylmer, Beatrix Campbell, Dick Pountain, Nina Fishman and David Marquand.
- ↑ John Kampfner, "The British Neoconservatives", New Statesman, 12 May 2003.
- ↑ Lloyd, John (22 April 2015). "Europe's greatest crisis isn't Greece or Ukraine, and it may have no solution". Reuters. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
- ↑ "Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories | Politics". theguardian.com. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2014-08-26.