Andrew Jaspan

Andrew Jaspan, (b. 20 April 1952)British-Australian journalist, is the editor of The Conversation, an independent not-for-profit website of analysis, commentary and news from the university and research sector .

Between 2004 and 2008, Jaspan was the Editor-in-Chief of Melbourne’s The Age and The Sunday Age, a job from which he was later sacked following a massive newsroom revolt in which 235 journalists accused him of "degrading their ability to produce independent journalism."

Prior to this, he edited The Observer in London, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, and Sunday Herald in the UK. Under Jaspan's editorship, the Sunday Herald won numerous internationally recognised SND awards. He also worked at The Times and Sunday Times and is also a former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Big Issue.

Jaspan is the Asia-Pacific Director of Innovation Media International, on the Board of the RMIT Global Cities Research Institute, a speaker and participant in the Australian Davos conference, and was an observer in the 2020 Ideas Summit.

He is Adjunct Professor in School of Media and Communication, RMIT, Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Infrastructure, University of Melbourne.

Jaspan joined The Age as Editor-in-Chief in October 2004. Throughout his appointment as Editor in Chief at The Age, circulation, readership and online figures increased.

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