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James Franklin Archibald "Archie" Bland (born 7 October 1983), is a British newspaper journalist who writes the Guardian's daily morning newsletter First Edition. Bland was previously the deputy editor of ''
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'', a national British newspaper, a post to which he was appointed in April 2012, at the age of 28. He was also the editor of the Saturday edition of ''The Independent''. He was one of the youngest people to have ever been appointed to a senior editorial post in the British national newspaper industry, described as "easily the youngest deputy editor in the paper's history, the youngest in national newspapers today and perhaps ever on Fleet Street".


Early life

Bland was born in 1983, the only child of Sir Christopher Bland, the former chairman of the
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(the forerunner of the
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), British Telecom, the Royal Shakespeare Company,
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and a number of other companies, as well as Deputy Chairman of the former
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, and Lady Bland (née Jennifer Mary Denise May),''The Peerage''
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, among whom are the author
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and The Hon. Jamie Byng, the owner of publishing house
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.


Education

Between the years 1997–2002,''The Trusty Servant'' (No.98) Page 12: ''Old Wykehamist News'' (first entry on p.12)
Published by: Wykehamist Society of Winchester College. Date: November 2004. Retrieved 6 September 2012. Bland was educated at
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, a boarding independent school for boys in Winchester in Hampshire, where he stayed at Boarding House I, known as Turner's (and informally as Hopper's). At Winchester, Bland obtained four A*s, three A's and two B's at GCSE, followed by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, at which he became the editor of '' Varsity'', the student newspaper of the university. He was named Guardian Student Columnist of the Year in 2004 (part of the
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), for his work as ''Varsitys Editor, and elected to a ''Senior Exhibition'' in the years 2004 – 2005, gaining a
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in English Literature (BA). He received the Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism (part of the
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) for 2006–7, a scholarship which enabled him to study at the
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in New York City, from which he received a master's degree in Journalism in 2007. He graduated from Columbia with Honors, receiving the School's Henry N. Taylor Award.


Life and career

Bland joined ''The Independent on Sunday'' newspaper in 2007 as a graphics researcher. In October 2010 he became Foreign Editor, replacing Katherine Butler, and Deputy Editor of the paper in April 2012. He was a regular columnist in the ''Independent'', and a contributor to the ''
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''. In July 2013, Bland took up a new role as senior writer at both ''
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'' and ''
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'' newspapers, and in September 2014, he joined ''
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'' newspaper. He later became Deputy National Editor of ''The Guardian'' before taking up his role writing the newsletter. Bland won the last-ever episode of the BBC television game show ''
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'', in March 2012. He had previously appeared on the programme in 2003, at the age of 19.As Robinson says 'Goodbye', our man Archie wins the last Weakest Link
Source: ''The Independent'' newspaper Date: 2 April 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2012


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