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Richard Spencer | |
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| Born | Richard John Spencer (1965-06-03)3 June 1965 (age 60) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford |
| Genre | Journalism |
Richard John Spencer (born 3 June 1965) is a British journalist. He is the middle east editor forThe Times and previously in the same post atThe Daily Telegraph.
Spencer was educated atSherborne School andLincoln College, Oxford. He has previously worked for six years as the newspaper's Beijing correspondent before moving toDubai, United Arab Emirates to take up his new post as one of their Middle East correspondents.[1] Spencer moved toCairo, Egypt in the wake of theArab Spring for ease of coverage.
A former blogger forThe Daily Telegraph, he is known for his witty anecdotes and dry sense of humour.[2] Spencer was the first Western journalist to reachYingxiu after the2008 Sichuan earthquake where 80% of the town had been destroyed.[3]
Spencer leftThe Telegraph in August 2016.[4] He joinedThe Times newspaper in 2016 and is based inBeirut, Lebanon.[5] He was nominated as Foreign Reporter of the Yearin theNational Press Awards for 2018.[6]
Spencer is married to writer and poet, Dr Helen Wing; the couple have three children together.
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