John Lloyd is a Contributing Editor for the Financial Times; Director of Journalism at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford; Director of the Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy; and a columnist for La Repubblica of Rome.
At the FT, he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief.
In 2003, he launched and edited (till 2005) the FT Magazine.
He is the co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, launched in November 2006
He is a member of the editorial board of Prospect magazine, and of the board of the Moscow School of Political Studies.
John has won awards as Journalist of the Year, Specialist Writer of the Year, and the David Watt Prize. He has been editor of the New Statesman in the 1980s and of Time Out in the 1970s. He has worked for Weekend World, the London Programme (LWT) and for Independent Radio News.
His books include “Loss without Limit: the British Miners’ Strike”; “Rebirth of a Nation: an Anatomy of Russia”; and “What the Media are doing to our politics”.