Simon Jenkins
Summary
Sir Simon David Jenkins (born 10 June 1943) is a British newspaper columnist and author, and since November 2008 has been chairman of the National Trust. He currently writes columns for both The Guardian and London's Evening Standard, and was previously a commentator for The Times, which he edited from 1990-1992. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford.A former editor of both The Times and the Standard, he received a knighthood for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours.He married the American actress Gayle Hunnicutt in 1978; the couple separated in 2008.After graduating from Oxford, Jenkins worked initially at Country Life magazine, before joining The Times Educational Supplement and then editing The Sunday Times Insight pages.
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To implement Leveson properly, it would be nice to have him around
Sir Brian wrote his report and departed, leaving contradictions that trouble his successors. But – please – that's not a good enough reason to abandon what looks like progress.
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Press regulation: The Sun's Trevor Kavanagh joins foundation group
Team formed to set up watchdog to replace PCC also includes former ITN boss Sue Tinson and Guardian's Simon Jenkins.
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Leveson: a new year, but little sign of a resolution
Christmas gave us a break from the report's complexities, but its problems don't look any more soluble now than they did in 2012.
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Lord Smith, Simon Jenkins and Lord Phillips named press regulator advisers
Lord Chris Smith, the former Labour culture secretary, the Guardian columnist and ex-Times editor Simon Jenkins and Lord Phillips, the former president of the supreme court, have been appointed as the special advisers who will help set up a new press regulator.
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A story is born - papers devote pages to the royal pregnancy
How can newspapers devote so much space to a one-fact story? Today's national titles managed it by carrying page after page of nonsensical, speculative copy about the Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) being pregnant.
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Cameron is right about Leveson. This is a Rubicon we must not cross | Simon Jenkins
Ask the victims of press intrusion, and of course they will call for the gag and the gallows – but that doesn't make it right.
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The Jimmy Savile witch-hunt sets us on a path to paranoia | Simon Jenkins
In our rush to apportion blame for the actions of an individual, we risk becoming blind to the real issues of the day.
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Making trouble is the greatest press freedom of all
A excoriating book by Mick Hume on the 'rogues' of Fleet Street casts an important new light on the tight and nervous world of post-Leveson journalism.
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Britain isn't as broadsheet as Leveson would like
Tabloids command a far larger readership in the UK than the quality papers, but it is the minority press, and its proposals, that hold sway over the inquiry.
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Ad of the Day: U.K. National Lottery
It's hard to remember that outside the U. S. , countries occasionally use money from the lottery to fund things other than the basic functions of state government. (I know, I know, you were promised education funding, and look where you are now!).
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