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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Roger Alton</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Roger Alton</b> (* <a href="20._Dezember" title="20. Dezember">20. Dezember</a> <a href="1947" title="1947">1947</a> in <a href="Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>) ist ein <a href="Vereinigtes_K%C3%B6nigreich" title="Vereinigtes Königreich">britischer</a> <a href="Journalist" title="Journalist">Journalist</a>. Er war Herausgeber des <a href="The_Observer" title="The Observer">Observer</a>, des <a href="The_Independent" title="The Independent">Independent</a> und der <a href="The_Times" title="The Times">Times</a> (<i>executive editor</i>).
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<p>Roger Alton besuchte das Clifton College in <a href="Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a> und absolvierte ein Studium am <a href="Exeter_College" title="Exeter College">Exeter College</a> in <a href="University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>. Seine erste Station bei einer Zeitung war 1969 bei der <i>Liverpool Post</i>. 1974 kam er zum <a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">Guardian</a> und betreute nacheinander die Ressorts Nachrichten, Sport, Kunst. 1999 wurde er Herausgeber des Wochenendmagazins des Guardian. 1998 wechselte er als Herausgeber zum <a href="The_Observer" title="The Observer">Observer</a> und nach zehn Jahren zum <a href="The_Independent" title="The Independent">Independent</a>, ebenfalls als Herausgeber<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. Von 2010 bis 2015 war er <i>Executive editor</i> der Times.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Alton schreibt seit 2008 eine <a href="Kolumne" title="Kolumne">Sportkolumne</a> für den <a href="The_Spectator_(Zeitschrift)" title="The Spectator (Zeitschrift)">Spectator</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Alton war in erster Ehe mit der Schauspielerin Helen Lederer (* 1954) verheiratet. Ihre gemeinsame Tochter ist die Schauspielerin Hannah Lederer (* 1990)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/subject/roger-alton/page/2/">Verzeichnis der Zeitschriftenartikel</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/09/profile-roger-alton">Profile: Roger Alton, editor with elan</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ben Dowell: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/sep/22/rogeralton.theindependent"><i>Roger Alton. 'I should be on a beach'.</i></a> The Guardian, 22. September, 2008, abgerufen am 11. April 2019</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">William Turville: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/executive-editor-roger-alton-leaves-times-after-five-years/"><i>Roger Alton Leaves The Times.</i></a> PressGazette, 2. Juni 2015, abgerufen am 11. April 2019</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/author/roger-alton/">Roger Alton</a> The Spectator, abgerufen am 12. April 2019</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2881332/">IMDb</a></span>
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