:Jon Worth

{{Short description|Political blogger, journalist and editor}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Jon Worth

| image =Jon Worth.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|05|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Newport, Wales

| occupation = Blogger
Editor
Journalist

| nationality = Welsh

| alma_mater = Merton College

| genre = Non-Fiction

| subject =Brexit
European Union
Germany

| website = {{URL|https://jonworth.eu/}}

}}

Jon Worth (born 23 May 1980) is a political blogger, journalist, and editor who regularly writes about EU policy, Brexit and German domestic and foreign policy.{{cite web|url=http://www.bpb.de/veranstaltungen/netzwerke/nece/252402/jon-worth-about-his-euroblog|title=Jon Worth about his Euroblog - bpb|first=Bundeszentrale für politische|last=Bildung|website=www.bpb.de}} Since 2015 he has been a visiting professor at the College of Europe.

Worth studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a BA. He also holds an MA in European Politics from the College of Europe, Bruges. Jon Worth's "Euroblog" started in 2005. It was ranked the third most influential left-of-center blog in 2010 by Social Europe.{{cite web|url=https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-most-influential-left-of-centre-european-blogs-and-the-winner-is|title=The most Influential left-of-centre European Blogs: And the winner is...|date=12 November 2010|publisher=|access-date=23 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823171055/https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-most-influential-left-of-centre-european-blogs-and-the-winner-is|archive-date=23 August 2017|url-status=dead}}

In his political work, he was president of the NGO Young European Federalists Europe between 2003 and 2005. In British politics, he was responsible for the online campaign supporting Harriet Harman's 2007 bid for Labour Party Deputy Leader.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mXJ18qIuVMwC&pg=PA82 see Iain Dale's Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2007] Worth also ran online campaigning for Diane Abbott's Labour Leadership bid in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://sotn.it/2013/05/jon-worth/|title=Jon Worth|date=15 May 2013|publisher=|access-date=23 August 2017|archive-date=22 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922024905/http://sotn.it/2013/05/jon-worth/|url-status=dead}} He was one of the founders of the Atheist Bus Campaign in 2008, the campaign having first been visualized in his blog entry "In your face atheism?".{{cite web|url=https://jonworth.eu/in-your-face-atheism/|title=In your face atheism? - Jon Worth Euroblog|date=20 June 2008|publisher=}} In 2013, at the time of his move to Berlin, he quit the Labour Party and joined the German Greens,{{cite web|url=https://jonworth.eu/why-im-leaving-the-labour-party-and-joining-the-grune-in-germany/|title=Why I'm leaving the Labour Party, and joining the Grüne in Germany - Jon Worth Euroblog|date=14 November 2013|publisher=}} where he ran in the 2016 local elections{{cite web|url=https://gruene-xhain.de/monika-herrmann-soll-buergermeisterin-bleiben-starke-liste-gewaehlt/|title=Monika Herrmann soll Bürgermeisterin bleiben – starke Liste gewählt - Grüne Xhain|website=gruene-xhain.de|date=9 April 2016}}

He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges,{{cite web|url=https://www.coleurope.eu/whoswho/person/jon.worth|title=Jon WORTH - College of Europe|website=www.coleurope.eu}} where he has been teaching since the 2015–16 academic year. He teaches students in the politics department about online communications and the EU and (together with Pierpaolo Settembri and Costanza Hermanin) runs the negotiation simulation.

As a UK citizen in Germany, he has regularly appeared in the German media to talk about Brexit.{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.com/en/france-and-uk-vote-hope-for-europe/av-39266526|title=France and UK Vote: Hope for Europe? - All media content - DW - 15.06.2017|website=DW.COM}}{{cite web|url=http://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Grossbritannien-war-immer-das-problematische-EU-Mitglied-article18042461.html|title="Großbritannien war immer das problematische EU-Mitglied"|first=n-tv|last=Nachrichtenfernsehen|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/nach-dem-referendum-in-grossbritannien-wie-weiter-in-der-eu.1083.de.html?dram:article_id=358047|title=Nach dem Referendum in Großbritannien - Wie weiter in der EU?|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-04/brexit-grossbritannien-eu-ausstieg-abstimmung-david-cameron|title=Brexit: Berlins Briten wollen bleiben|first=Luisa|last=Jacobs|date=3 April 2016|publisher=|via=Die Zeit}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/briten-in-deutschland-wir-koennten-zu-inselaffen-werden-1.3028315-3|title="Wir könnten zu Inselaffen werden"|date=22 June 2016|publisher=|via=Sueddeutsche.de}}

He is a member of the Europe Policy Group of the World Economic Forum{{cite web |url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Policy_Group_Members.pdf?ET_CID=2199827&ET_RID=001b000000npTqWAAU |title=Europe Policy Group New Concept for Europe Initiative |website= www3.weforum.org|format=PDF|access-date=2020-06-18}} and the Transparency International EU Advisory Group.{{Cite web|url=https://transparency.eu/transparency-international-eu-establishes-first-advisory-group|title=Transparency International EU|first=Transparency International|last=EU|date=1 December 2015|website=Transparency International EU|access-date=23 August 2017|archive-date=12 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112232606/https://transparency.eu/transparency-international-eu-establishes-first-advisory-group/|url-status=dead}}

In the summer of 2022, he started the #CrossBorderRail campaign drawing attention to issues within the European rail network, and specifically the border connections between countries.{{Cite web |title=Homepage |url=https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=#CrossBorderRail |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Ian |date=2022-07-22 |title='The EU has to be more radical': How can we fix cross-border rail? |url=https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/07/22/meet-the-man-battling-to-fix-europe-s-trains-via-an-epic-40-day-journey |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=euronews |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Kotkamp |first=Lukas |date=2022-10-09 |title=Spoorweg-activist Jon Worth: 'In Brussel lobbyt niemand voor de Europese treinreiziger' |url=https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/jon-worth-spoor-in-europa-geen-alternatief-voor-vliegen |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek |language=nl-NL}}