John Lloyd

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 also a columnist for La Repubblica of Rome.

At the Financial Times, he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief. In 2003 he launched the FT Magazine which he edited until 2005. He is the co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, launched in 2006. He is a member of the editorial board of Prospect magazine and 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.