Patrick Wintour (born 1 November 1954) is a British journalist and the diplomatic editor of ''

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''. 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. In the intervening period he was the political editor of ''

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''.

Early life

Wintour was born on 1 November 1954, the son of former ''

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'' 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

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, is the current Editor-in-Chief of the American edition of ''

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'' magazine. His brother Jim arranged equestrian events at the

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. Wintour is the grandson of Major-General

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. Wintour was educated at The Hall School in

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and

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.'Wintour, Patrick (born 1 November 1954)' in ''

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'' (London: A. & C. Black, 2011) At Westminster, he was a contemporary of

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and

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Career

Known for his contacts inside the Labour Party, Wintour began his career in journalism on the ''

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'' from 1976 to 1982, before joining ''

'' as chief Labour Correspondent in 1983. From 1988, he was the paper's Chief Political Correspondent, 1988–1996, and then Political Editor of ''

'', ''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

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"Political Journalist of the Year" award in 2007.''

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''
Roll of Honour
; retrieved 24 July 2011. In October 2015, Wintour moved to a new role as ''The Guardian''s Diplomatic Editor. In December

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and

Heather Stewart Heather Stewart (born 28 September 1976) is an English journalist who is a special correspondent for ''The Guardian.'' She was formerly political editor of ''The Guardian'', and before that economics editor of ''The Observer'' and before that, ' ...

were appointed to succeed him in a job-share arrangement. All three took up their new roles at the beginning of 2016.

Personal life

Wintour's second wife is Rachel Sylvester, a journalist for ''

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''. The couple have two children. Wintour was formerly married to the journalist Madeleine Bunting, with whom he also has two children.

References

External links

My job: Patrick Wintour, political editor, The Guardian
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