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Times executive editor Roger Alton has left the paper, five years after joining the News UK title following a long career at the top of Fleet Street.Times executive editor Roger Alton has left the paper, five years after joining the News UK title following a long career at the top of Fleet Street.
Alton was editor of the Observer from 1997 to 2007, before taking over as editor of the Independent in 2008.Alton was editor of the Observer from 1997 to 2007, before taking over as editor of the Independent in 2008.
He stood down from the Indy in 2010, just as Independent News & Media was taken over by Alexander Lebdev. He was replaced by former editor Simon Kellner, who was then managing director and editor-in-chief of the Independent and Independent on Sunday.He stood down from the Indy in 2010, just as Independent News & Media was taken over by Alexander Lebdev. He was replaced by former editor Simon Kellner, who was then managing director and editor-in-chief of the Independent and Independent on Sunday.
He has written regularly for the Spectator about sport, in particular cricket, with his most recent article appearing last Saturday. In an email to all Times staff on Friday with a subject line “Free Ashes and Rugby World Cup tickets”, Alton said:
Alton said:
“It has been a hugely exciting and fascinating time to have worked here. A wonderful period, with some truly fantastic and really talented people, true friends, from whom I have learned a great deal.“It has been a hugely exciting and fascinating time to have worked here. A wonderful period, with some truly fantastic and really talented people, true friends, from whom I have learned a great deal.
The Times is a quite remarkable paper, brilliantly edited and written and designed, and unique in the modern world really, in being easily the most contemporary paper, certainly in this country, with a quite amazing legacy and back-story too. Nothing else like it. I think maybe until you work elsewhere, and come in, you don’t quite realise how unbelievably strong the Times is. It is a great privilege for me to have worked here: I think it is a privilege for anyone to work here.The Times is a quite remarkable paper, brilliantly edited and written and designed, and unique in the modern world really, in being easily the most contemporary paper, certainly in this country, with a quite amazing legacy and back-story too. Nothing else like it. I think maybe until you work elsewhere, and come in, you don’t quite realise how unbelievably strong the Times is. It is a great privilege for me to have worked here: I think it is a privilege for anyone to work here.
“Anyway, thank you all very much for making my time here such a blast, and thank you also for the nice things that many of you have said. It has been emotional. In the meantime don’t forget me: always available for functions and weddings.”“Anyway, thank you all very much for making my time here such a blast, and thank you also for the nice things that many of you have said. It has been emotional. In the meantime don’t forget me: always available for functions and weddings.”
Alton has written regularly for the Spectator about sport, in particular cricket, with his most recent article appearing last Saturday.
Alton’s departure comes as the Times has stabilised its print circulation and built a digital subscriber base of around 150,000.Alton’s departure comes as the Times has stabilised its print circulation and built a digital subscriber base of around 150,000.
The Times titles recorded an operating profit of £1.7m for the year ending 30 June 2014, its first in 13 years.The Times titles recorded an operating profit of £1.7m for the year ending 30 June 2014, its first in 13 years.