Katharine Viner
Katharine Viner is editor-in-chief of the Guardian, a position she has held since June 2015. She joined the Guardian as a writer in 1997. She was appointed deputy editor of the Guardian in 2008; launched the award-winning Guardian Australia in 2013; and was also editor of Guardian US, based in New York.
Katharine gave the 2013 AN Smith lecture in journalism at the University of Melbourne, The Rise of the Reader, discussing journalism in the age of the open web, and a speech on Truth and Reality in a Hyper-Connected World as part of the Oxford University Women of Achievement Lecture Series in May 2016. She is the winner of the 2017 Diario Madrid prize for journalism for her long read How Technology Disrupted the Truth
She tweets at @KathViner
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Today in FocusCotton Capital: Reparations – episode 6Revisited: In the final episode of the series, Cotton Capital editor and Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson looks at the subject of reparations. What do they mean for communities and descendants of transatlantic enslavement – and what is the Guardian planning to do in its own programme of measures?
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Katharine VinerGuardian and Observer charity appeal 2022Millions in Britain are choosing between heating and eating. It’s not too late to help themThere is still time to donate to our 2022 appeal and support charities tackling the wave of hunger and poverty that the government has let crash over our communities
