Patrick Wintour
{{Short description|British journalist (born 1954)}}
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| name = Patrick Wintour
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|11|01|df=y}}
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| alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Oxford
| occupation = Journalist
| parents = Charles Wintour
Eleanor Trego Baker
| children = 4
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- {{marriage|Madeleine Bunting|||end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Rachel Sylvester|2002}}
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| relatives = Dame Anna Wintour (sister)
| nationality = British
| employer = The Guardian
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Patrick Wintour (born 1 November 1954) is a British journalist and the diplomatic editor of The Guardian.[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/patrickwintour Profile: Patrick Wintour.] The Guardian May 2016. He was the political editor of The Guardian from 2006 to 2015 and was formerly the newspaper's chief political correspondent for two periods, from 1988 to 1996, and 2000 to 2006.[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/37696 My job: Patrick Wintour, political editor, The Guardian] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416083423/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/37696 |date=16 April 2016 }} Press Gazette, 28 May 2007. In the intervening period he was the political editor of The Observer.
Early life
Wintour is the son of former Evening Standard editor Charles Vere Wintour by his marriage to Eleanor "Nonie" Trego Baker (1917–1995), an American, the daughter of a Harvard law professor. His parents married in 1940 and divorced in 1979. His elder sister, Dame Anna Wintour, is the current editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue magazine. His brother Jim arranged equestrian events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Wintour is the grandson of Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour.
Wintour was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead, Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.'Wintour, Patrick (born 1 November 1954)' in Who's Who 2011 (London: A. & C. Black, 2011) At Westminster, he was a contemporary of Adam Mars-Jones and Chris Huhne.
Career
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Known for his contacts inside the Labour Party,{{cn|date=April 2024}} Wintour began his career in journalism on the New Statesman from 1976 to 1982, before joining The Guardian as chief Labour Correspondent in 1983. From 1988, he was the paper's Chief Political Correspondent, 1988–1996, and then Political Editor of The Observer, The Guardian{{'}}s Sunday sister paper, until 2000. He returned to The Guardian as Chief Political Correspondent in 2000 before being appointed political editor in 2006, on the retirement of Michael White. Wintour won the British Press Awards "Political Journalist of the Year" award in 2007.Press Gazette, [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=99&navcode=92# Roll of Honour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616181807/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=99&navcode=92 |date=16 June 2011 }}; retrieved 24 July 2011.
In October 2015, Wintour moved to a new role as The Guardian{{'}}s Diplomatic Editor.{{cite news|last=Turvill|first=William|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/seamas-milne-leaves-guardian-labour-political-editor-patrick-wintour-moves-diplomatic-role|title=Seumas Milne leaves Guardian for Labour as political editor Patrick Wintour moves to diplomatic role|work=Press Gazette|date=21 October 2015|accessdate=21 October 2015}} In December Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart were appointed to succeed him in a job-share arrangement. All three took up their new roles at the beginning of 2016.{{cite news|last=Jackson|first=Jasper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/11/anushka-asthana-and-heather-stewart-to-share-role-of-guardian-political-editor|title=Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart to share role of Guardian political editor|work=The Guardian|date=11 December 2015|accessdate=11 December 2015}}
Personal life
Wintour's second wife is Rachel Sylvester, a journalist for The Times.{{cite web|url=http://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/277577/top-100-political-journalists-2011.thtml |title=Top 100 political journalists 2011 | Total Politics |accessdate=16 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301171422/http://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/277577/top-100-political-journalists-2011.thtml |archivedate=1 March 2014 }} The couple have two children.
Wintour was formerly married to the journalist Madeleine Bunting,{{cite news|last=Oppenheimer|first=Jerry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq3WpfuFc1oC&pg=PA346|title=Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief|location=New York City|publisher=St Martin's Press|year=2005|page=346|isbn=9781429907637}} with whom he also has two children.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110616183816/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=37696 "My job: Patrick Wintour, political editor, The Guardian"], Press Gazette, 28 May 2007.
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Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Category:British male journalists
Category:British people of American descent
Category:People educated at Westminster School, London
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)