John Lloyd (journalist)
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John Nicol Fortune Lloyd (born 15 April 1946)[1][2] is a British journalist who is currently contributing editor at the Financial Times and an Associate Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[3]
Background
Lloyd was born and raised in Anstruther, Fife, by his grandparents and his mother, a beautician. He was educated at Waid Academy in the town and, after spending a short period working as a caddie in Canada, attended the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an upper-second class MA (Hons) degree in English literature in 1967.[4]
Career
Lloyd was initially employed as a writer for the alternative press, contributing articles to publications such as Ink and the London listings magazine
Lloyd is a member of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He has won awards for his 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), Reporting the EU: News, Media and the European Institutions (with Cristina Marconi, 2014), 'The Power and the Story' (2017) and Should Auld Alliance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence (2020).
Personal life
Lloyd is married with one son, the actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd,[6] from a previous marriage.
References
- ^ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 35, 15 April 2014
- ^ a b "LLOYD, John Nicol Fortune". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Profile: John Lloyd The Guardian website.
- ^ a b Alumni Profiles: John Lloyd, Edinburgh University Alumni Services. Accessed 20 May 2020.
- ^ Wilby, Peter (12 July 2004). "Rough trade". New Statesman. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ISBN 9781509542680.