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Andrew Jaspan, a British journalist, was appointed in October, 2004, as Editor-in-Chief of The Age, a broadsheet daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was the founder and editor of the Sunday Herald in Scotland from 1999 to 2004. Under Jaspan's editorship, the Sunday Herald won numerous internationally recognised SND awards. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... Herald is a common name for newspapers throughout the English-speaking world, and the Sunday editions are often called Sunday Herald. ...

Previously, Jaspan was Editor of The Observer from 1995-1996 and Editor of The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday and is also a former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Big Issue. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Scotsmans offices in Edinburgh The Scotsman is a Scottish national newspaper, published in Edinburgh. ... The Scotsman is a Scottish newspaper published in Edinburgh. ... Founded by John Bird in September 1991, The Big Issue is a magazine in the United Kingdom that is edited by professional journalists and sold by homeless people. ...

Jaspan joined The Age as Editor-in-Chief on October 18, 2004. His arrival was not welcomed by some who were offended by his gaffe in saying that he was looking forward to working in Sydney.[1]. He has been tested throughout his tenure as British man leading an Australian institution - including a question on his first address to staff about who won the AFL final. He answered correctly. is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ...

Jaspan's newspapers tend to feature an idiosyncratic design style. In September 1995, he relaunched The Observer, with a controversial lower case, two-tone masthead and bold, stacked sans-serif headline fonts, which was a major departure from the paper's previous, more conservative design. He made similar changes to The Age, and as launch editor of the Sunday Herald, he ensured that the paper featured crisp elegant headline fonts and plenty of colour. But his style isn't to everybody's taste. After barely a year at the helm of The Observer, Jaspan was acrimoniously fired, and the subsequent editor, Will Hutton, restored the serif fonts and quickly jettisoned most of Jaspan's award-winning design flourishes. Jaspan was known to be hostile to this, and wrote in the New Statesman that he was unhappy both with the manner of his dismissal, and with the 'junking' of his editorial vision for the paper. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Herald is a common name for newspapers throughout the English-speaking world, and the Sunday editions are often called Sunday Herald. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Craig is a British writer, weekly columnist (and former editor-in-chief) for The Observer in London and currently Chief Executive of The Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society). ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...

Since his appointment as Editor in Chief at The Age, circulation and readership figures - as well as online figures - have increased significantly.

Andrew Jaspan also attracted criticism of a different kind in June 2005, when he described Iraqi kidnap victim Douglas Wood as "boorish" and "insensitive" for calling his captors "arseholes." [2] Initial image of Douglas Wood after capture by Iraqi militants. ...

In 2008 The Age's 235 journalists unanimously voted for a motion accusing Jaspan of degrading their ability to produce independent journalism.[3]

Early life

Andrew was born in Manchester and lived in Australia, in the Hunter Valley, Canberra and Perth between the ages of seven and fourteen. After returning to Britain but before embarking on a career in journalism, he was manager for The Smirks, a Manchester band. He joined The Daily Telegraph as a reporter in 1980 before moving to The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Times. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... Location of Perth within Australia This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... The Smirks were an English new wave band from Manchester who played from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...