Observer editor to step down
By Leah McBride Mensching, Wednesday 24 October 2007 at 21:43 :: Management :: #749 :: rss
John Mulholland will take the reins from Roger Alton as editor of The Observer at the end of the year.
Previously at the Guardian, Alton has been at The Observer for more than 20 years, and has served as arts editor, features editor, editor of Weekend magazine and assistant editor. Mulholland is currently deputy editor at The Observer, Press Gazette reported Wednesday.
Alton has been the paper's editor for almost 10 years, during which monthly Sport, Music, Woman and Food magazines were introduced, as was the paper's move to the Berliner format in 2006. Earlier this year, The Observer won Newspaper of the Year at the British Press Awards.
“It has been an immense privilege to edit The Observer and work with such a brilliant team. For the best part of ten years, this has been the time of my life,” Alton said, according to Press Gazette. “The Observer is in fantastic shape, editorially and commercially, and this is the right time for me now to be handing over to John.”
Alton said Mulholland has a “clear vision and ambition for (the paper's) print and digital future,” and called him “a fabulous journalist and a dear friend I would trust with my life.”
Mulholland, 44, played an important role in the newspaper's move to the Berliner format, and developed and launched most of the newspaper's monthly magazines, Liz Forgan, chairwoman of The Scott Trust, which owns The Observer, told Press Gazette. He has been deputy editor since 1998.
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