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Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953) is a British journalist. Originally a reporter and a columnist, he became editor of The Guardian in 1995, remaining in the post until 2015 when he was succeeded by Katharine Viner.
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The BBC is almost certainly the best news organisation in the world – the most serious, comprehensive, ethical, accurate, international, wide-ranging, fair and impartial.
Does journalism exist? (2010)
The papers should promote minority views as well as mainstream argument and should encourage dissent.
Rusbridger (2008)
We will encourage reporters to be as specific as possible about the source of any anonymous quotation.
It would be difficult to devise a process more inclined to throw up errors than the production of a newspaper.
Rusbridger (2000)
There are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
Rusbridger (2011)
Unnoticed by most of the world, Julian Assange was developing into a most interesting and unusual pioneer in using digital technologies to challenge corrupt and authoritarian states.
Rusbridger (2011)
The greater the speed required of us in the digital world – and speed does matter, but never at the expense of accuracy or fairness or anything which would imperil trust – the more we should be honest about the tentative nature of what is possible.
Rusbridger (2008)
All journalism is investigative to a greater or lesser extent, but investigative journalism – though it is a bit of a tautology – is that because it requires more, it's where the investigative element is more pronounced.
Rusbridger (1999)
We're no longer a once-a-day text medium for a predominantly domestic audience. Increasingly - around the clock - we use a combination of media in telling stories, and in commentary, to millions of users around the globe.
When I look back over some of the most high-profile things we’ve done recently at The Guardian I see an interesting pattern emerging – a form of collaborative journalism that I can best describe as a mutualised newspaper.
[There is a] widespread feeling that newspapers are failing in their duty of truly representing the complexity of some of the most important issues in society.
Alan Rusbridger (2005)
In the days when we could take it for granted that journalism mattered, we could only share assumptions about what it was, how it was delivered and funded, but this is not the case any more.
to Rusbridger (2008)