Alan rusbridger

Job: editor, the Guardian, executive editor, the Observer

Age: 53

Industry: publishing, new media

Circulation: Guardian 371,754, Observer 451,363 (May 2007)

Salary: £355,000 (including £17,000 benefits)

2006 ranking: 35

- Rusbridger joined the Guardian as a reporter in 1979 and was appointed deputy editor in 1993, joining the Guardian Newspapers board a year later.

-Alan rusbridger is the sone of G H Rusbridger.

- He is the editor of The Guardian and has been since 1995.

- His dad is the director of education of Zambia.

- Alan first joined the guardian in 1979 as a reporter.

- He wrote the paper’s diary column and was a feature writer.

- Editor of the guardian since 1995 and the executive editor of the observer.

- The guardians websit the guardian unlimited beat the wallstreet journal online and the new york times to win the webby awards as the best newspaper website of the year for the 3rd consecetive time.

- Alan Rusbridger is also the executive editor of The Observer.

- In addition to journalism, he has written three children's books as well as being the co-author (with Ronan Bennett) of a BBC drama, Fields of Gold.

-Alan Rusbridger was educated in Cambridge university and he did BA on English literature. Alan is known to be interested in music and golf.

- Alan Rusbridger lives in London with a family that includes, a wife, two daughters, a dog called Angus and a cat called Retro.