Everything about Andrew Jaspan totally explained
Andrew Jaspan, a
British journalist, was appointed in October, 2004, as Editor-in-Chief of
The Age, a
broadsheet daily newspaper published in
Melbourne,
Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was the founder and editor of the
Sunday Herald in Scotland from 1999 to 2004. Under Jaspan's editorship, the Sunday Herald won numerous internationally recognised SND awards.
Previously, Jaspan was Editor of
The Observer from 1995-1996 and Editor of
The Scotsman and
Scotland on Sunday and is also a former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of
The Big Issue.
Jaspan joined
The Age as Editor-in-Chief on
October 18,
2004. His arrival wasn't welcomed by some who were offended by his gaffe in saying that he was looking forward to working in
Sydney.
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). He has been tested throughout his tenure as British man leading an Australian institution - including a question on his first address to staff about who won the AFL final. He answered correctly.
Jaspan's newspapers tend to feature an idiosyncratic design style. In September 1995, he relaunched
The Observer, with a controversial lower case, two-tone masthead and bold, stacked sans-serif headline fonts, which was a major departure from the paper's previous, more conservative design. He made similar changes to
The Age, and as launch editor of the
Sunday Herald, he ensured that the paper featured crisp elegant headline fonts and plenty of colour. But his style isn't to everybody's taste. After barely a year at the helm of
The Observer, Jaspan was acrimoniously fired, and the subsequent editor,
Will Hutton, restored the serif fonts and quickly jettisoned most of Jaspan's award-winning design flourishes. Jaspan was known to be hostile to this, and wrote in the
New Statesman that he was unhappy both with the manner of his dismissal, and with the 'junking' of his editorial vision for the paper.
Since his appointment as Editor in Chief at The Age, circulation and readership figures - as well as online figures - have increased significantly.
Andrew Jaspan also attracted criticism of a different kind in June 2005, when he described Iraqi kidnap victim
Douglas Wood as "boorish" and "insensitive" for calling his captors "arseholes."
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In 2008 The Age's 235 journalists unanimously voted for a motion accusing Jaspan of degrading their ability to produce independent journalism.
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Early life
Andrew was born in
Manchester and lived in Australia, in the
Hunter Valley,
Canberra and
Perth between the ages of seven and fourteen. After returning to Britain but before embarking on a career in journalism, he was manager for
The Smirks, a Manchester band. He joined
The Daily Telegraph as a reporter in 1980 before moving to
The Daily Mirror and
The Sunday Times.
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