Josh Spero
EducationUniversity College School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
EmployerFinancial Times

Josh Spero is a British journalist and author. He is acting associate editor for the Financial Times Weekend Magazine and the author of Second-Hand Stories.[1]

Early life and education

Spero was educated at University College School and read Latin and Greek at Oxford.[2] In 2004, Spero won University Challenge as part of the Magdalen College, Oxford team, beating Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[3][4]

Career

Spero began his career as senior editor of Spear's magazine from 2008 to 2010 and editor from 2010 to 2015. From 2010 to 2013, he was an occasional contributor to The Economist. He was Tatler’s art critic from 2013 to 2018 and a freelance arts and culture writer for the Guardian, Independent, New Statesman and the Sunday Times.[5][6] In 2016, he joined the Financial Times as a special reports editor and was acting transport correspondent from 2018 to 2019, before a secondment in Tokyo from 2019 to 2020.

Spero has been a contributor to the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.[7][8]

In October 2015, Spero's first book, Second-Hand Stories, was published by Unbound.[1][9]

Personal life

Spero has described himself as 'the gay, bookish son of a taxi driver.'[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Josh Spero". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 Spero, Josh (4 December 2015). "My life as a teenage outsider". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  3. ↑ East, Ben (18 October 2015). "Second Hand Stories by Josh Spero review – a great idea… flattened". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "BBC - Press Office - University Challenge 2004 final". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Josh Spero | Art Business Conference". Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "Writers". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Is technology killing old loved books?". BBC News. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  8. ↑ "Battle of Ideas 2015 | speaker | Josh Spero". archive.battleofideas.org.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "Josh Spero news and features". Tatler. Retrieved 30 March 2020.


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