James Harding (born 1969) is a British journalist. In December 2007, he was named editor of The Times newspaper, following Robert Thomson's appointment as publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Harding was educated at the independent St. Paul's School in Barnes, near Hammersmith in London, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge and City University. Before entering the media, he worked as a speechwriter to a senior Japanese civil servant and for the Japan unit of the European Commission.

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  • James Harding (born 1969) is a British journalist. In December 2007, he was named editor of The Times newspaper, following Robert Thomson's appointment as publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Harding was educated at the independent St. Paul's School in Barnes, near Hammersmith in London, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge and City University. Before entering the media, he worked as a speechwriter to a senior Japanese civil servant and for the Japan unit of the European Commission. He began his journalistic career at the Financial Times in 1994 and two years later opened the paper's Shanghai bureau. After serving for three years as the Financial Times' Washington bureau chief, he joined The Times in 2006 as Business Editor. Harding speaks English, French, German, Mandarin and Japanese. In 2009, he was responsible for discovering and then publishing the identity of the British police blogger known as "Nightjack". His book Alpha Dogs was published in May 2008 by FSG.
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  • Editor of ''The Times''
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  • James Harding (born 1969) is a British journalist. In December 2007, he was named editor of The Times newspaper, following Robert Thomson's appointment as publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Harding was educated at the independent St. Paul's School in Barnes, near Hammersmith in London, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge and City University. Before entering the media, he worked as a speechwriter to a senior Japanese civil servant and for the Japan unit of the European Commission.
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  • James Harding (journalist)
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