After 20 remarkable years as editor, Alan Rusbridger is stepping down. Here he reflects on two decades of sweeping change, and recalls his fervent wish when he took the job: “Please, please let me not drop the vase”
This month, after 194 years of male leadership, the Guardian welcomes Katharine Viner as its first female editor-in-chief. This teaching resource looks briefly at a few of the women who helped to pave the way for her in the last century – leaving their mark on the newspaper and their stories in the GNM Archive.
‘Farewell, readers’: Alan Rusbridger on leaving the Guardian after two decades at the helm