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John Mulholland (born 20 November 1962) is an Irish journalist who is the editor of the British Sunday newspaper ''The Observer'' and assistant editor of ''The Guardian''. He has worked for most of his career with the Guardian Media Group.〔 ==Career== Mulholland was born in Ranelagh, Dublin, and has seven siblings.〔 Mulholland received a degree in Communications in 1983 from Dublin City University〔 and he also studied for an MA in media and communications at California State University, Sacramento.〔 He worked as arts assistant at ''The Independent'' from 1987–8, then briefly for ''London Daily News'' in the same role. He co-founded ''Listings Limited'' in 1988 as the deputy editor, providing arts and entertainments listings to newspapers.〔 He joined ''The Guardian'' as assistant editor of the arts desk in 1990, then became media editor in 1994. In 1998 he left ''The Guardian'' to manage the relaunch of Mirror Group Newspapers' ''Sporting Life'', but his contract was ended after three months and before the launch after a disagreement over the management of the project.〔 He rejoined the Guardian Media Group as deputy editor of ''The Observer'' in 1998, overseeing the magazines, sport, travel and culture sections. He developed and launched the monthly food, sport and music magazines and lead the change of format to Berliner. He encouraged Nick Paton Walsh when Paton Walsh was a trainee at the newspaper, and entered his first piece into the ''Press Gazettes Young Journalist of the Year award in 2000, which it won. Mulholland succeeded Roger Alton as editor in January 2008 (announced in October 2007), having read ''The Observer'' as a teenager,〔Rock, Mark. (John Mulholland, Editor, The Observer ). ''Audioboo'', May 2011 (6:13, mp3)〕 and reshuffled the paper's editorial team. He closed the monthly sport, music and women's magazines in 2009, and relaunched the paper in February 2010 with four sections and a reduced staff of 70 to reduce costs. Mulholland faced criticism and calls for his resignation due to an article by pJulie Burchill published in ''The Observer'' on 13 January 2013 which was widely seen as transphobic. Mulholland responded on the comments page to what he described as "many emails protesting about this piece" and stated that he would be looking into the issue. On 1 June 2015, Muholland additionally became an assistant editor of ''The Guardian'' in one of the first appointments made by Katharine Viner, the new editor-in-chief of Guardian News and Media.〔("Lee Glendinning appointed editor, Guardian US" ), Guardian News & Media press release, 1 June 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Mulholland (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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