Sub-sub-fonds 12 - Readers' Editor's records

41 boxes (accruing)

Papers of the Readers' Editors of the Guardian. Contains examples of readers' letters and complaints relating to significant issues. Also includes surveys of Guardian journalists conducted by the readers' editor on a number of topics.

Administrative/Biographical history: In 1997 the Guardian was the first national newspaper to appoint a readers' editor to produce the daily Corrections and Clarifications column. The role of the readers' editor is 'to collect, consider, investigate, respond to, and where appropriate come to a conclusion about readers' comments, concerns, and complaints in a prompt and timely manner from a position of independence within the paper, and to seek to ensure the maintenance of high standards of accuracy, fairness, and balance in reporting and writing'.

Ian Mayes became the Guardian's first readers editor and remained in this post until March 2007 when Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian's chief lawyer, took over the role. Siobhain was succeed in July 2010 by the current reader's editor, Chris Elliott, formerly managing editor.

Creator: Guardian News & Media Limited; Readers' Editor's office

The collection is split by the 3 readers' editors
Ian Mayes GUA/6/12/1
Siobhain Butterworth GUA/6/12/2
Chris Elliott GUA/6/12/3

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