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First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> <table class="infobox vcard ib-newspaper"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">The Observer</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Observer_2018.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/The_Observer_2018.svg/220px-The_Observer_2018.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/The_Observer_2018.svg/330px-The_Observer_2018.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/The_Observer_2018.svg/440px-The_Observer_2018.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="157"></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:TheObserver2018.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/TheObserver2018.png" decoding="async" 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(newspaper)">Compact</a> (since 2018)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guardian_Media_Group" title="Guardian Media Group">Guardian Media Group</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Webster_(journalist)" title="Paul Webster (journalist)">Paul Webster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">4 December 1791; 232 years ago (1791-12-04)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political alignment</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Centre-left" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre-left">Centre-left</a><a href="#cite_note-undecidedvoters-2">[2]</a> <a href="/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Republicanism in the United Kingdom">British republicanism</a><a href="#cite_note-New_Statesman,_2012-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kings_Place" title="Kings Place">Kings Place</a>, 90 York Way, London</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">Circulation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">136,656 (as of July 2021)<a href="#cite_note-circlead-4">[4]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sister newspapers</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian_Weekly" title="The Guardian Weekly">The Guardian Weekly</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> number</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436604553">436604553 </a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History">1 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Origins">1.1 Origins</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#19th_century">1.2 19th century</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#20th_century">1.3 20th century</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#21st_century">1.4 21st century</a></li> </ul> 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Bourne, was the world's first <a href="/wiki/Sunday_newspaper" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday newspaper">Sunday newspaper</a>.<a href="#cite_note-theguardian.com-6">[6]</a> Believing that the paper would be a means of wealth, Bourne instead soon found himself facing debts of nearly £1,600. Though early editions purported editorial independence, Bourne attempted to cut his losses and sell the title to the government. When this failed, Bourne's brother (a wealthy businessman) made an offer to the government, which also refused to buy the paper but agreed to subsidise it in return for influence over its editorial content. As a result, the paper soon took a strong line against radicals such as <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Burdett" title="Francis Burdett">Francis Burdett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Priestley" title="Joseph Priestley">Joseph Priestley</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 19th century" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In 1807, the brothers decided to relinquish editorial control, naming <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Doxat" title="Lewis Doxat">Lewis Doxat</a> as the new editor. Seven years later, the brothers sold The Observer to <a href="/wiki/William_Innell_Clement" title="William Innell Clement">William Innell Clement</a>, a newspaper proprietor who owned a number of publications. The paper continued to receive government subsidies during this period; in 1819, of the approximately 23,000 copies of the paper distributed weekly, approximately 10,000 were given away as "specimen copies", distributed by postmen who were paid to deliver them to "lawyers, doctors, and gentlemen of the town."<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> Clement maintained ownership of The Observer until his death in 1852.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] After Doxat retired in 1857, Clement's heirs sold the paper to Joseph Snowe, who also took over the editor's chair.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1870, wealthy businessman <a href="/wiki/Julius_Beer" title="Julius Beer">Julius Beer</a> bought the paper and appointed <a href="/wiki/Edward_Dicey" title="Edward Dicey">Edward Dicey</a> as editor, whose efforts succeeded in reviving circulation. Though Beer's son Frederick became the owner upon Julius's death in 1880, he had little interest in the newspaper and was content to leave Dicey as editor until 1889.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <a href="/wiki/Henry_Duff_Traill" title="Henry Duff Traill">Henry Duff Traill</a> took over the editorship after Dicey's departure, only to be replaced in 1891 by Frederick's wife, <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Beer" title="Rachel Beer">Rachel Beer</a>,<a href="#cite_note-theguardian.com-6">[6]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sassoon_family" title="Sassoon family">Sassoon family</a>. She remained as editor for thirteen years, combining it in 1893 with the editorship of <a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a>, a newspaper that she had also bought.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 20th century" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Upon Frederick's death in 1903, the paper was purchased by the newspaper magnate <a href="/wiki/Lord_Northcliffe" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Northcliffe">Lord Northcliffe</a>. In 1911, <a href="/wiki/William_Waldorf_Astor" title="William Waldorf Astor">William Waldorf Astor</a> was approached by <a href="/wiki/James_Louis_Garvin" class="mw-redirect" title="James Louis Garvin">James Louis Garvin</a>, the editor of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Observer</a>, about purchasing the newspaper from Northcliffe. Northcliffe and Garvin had a disagreement over the issue of <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Preference" title="Imperial Preference">Imperial Preference</a>, and Northcliffe had given Garvin the option of finding a buyer for the paper. Northcliffe sold the paper to Astor, who transferred ownership to his son <a href="/wiki/Waldorf_Astor,_2nd_Viscount_Astor" title="Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor">Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor</a> four years later. Astor convinced his father to purchase the paper, which William did on the condition that Garvin also agree to edit the <a href="/wiki/Pall_Mall_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="Pall Mall Gazette">Pall Mall Gazette</a>, which was also a property of the Astor family.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Garvin departed as editor in 1942.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Ownership passed to Waldorf's sons in 1948, with David taking over as editor. He remained in the position for 27 years, during which time he turned it into a trust-owned newspaper employing, among others, <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Jennings_(UK_author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Jennings (UK author)">Paul Jennings</a> and <a href="/wiki/C._A._Lejeune" title="C. A. Lejeune">C. A. Lejeune</a>. In 1977, the Astors sold the ailing newspaper to US oil giant <a href="/wiki/ARCO" title="ARCO">Atlantic Richfield</a> (now called ARCO) who sold it to <a href="/wiki/Lonrho" title="Lonrho">Lonrho plc</a> in 1981.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] It became part of the <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Media_Group" title="Guardian Media Group">Guardian Media Group</a> in June 1993, after a rival acquisition bid by <a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a> was rejected.<a href="#cite_note-Indy-10">[10]</a> <a href="/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft" title="Farzad Bazoft">Farzad Bazoft</a>, a journalist for The Observer, was executed in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> in 1990 on charges of spying. In 2003, The Observer interviewed the Iraqi colonel who had arrested and interrogated Bazoft and who was convinced that Bazoft was not a spy.<a href="#cite_note-Farzad1-11">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 21st century" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> On 27 February 2005, The Observer Blog<a href="#cite_note-ObserverBlog1-12">[12]</a> was launched. In addition to the weekly Observer Magazine <a href="/wiki/Colour_supplement" title="Colour supplement">colour supplement</a> which is still present every Sunday, for several years each issue of The Observer came with a different free monthly magazine. These magazines had the titles Observer Sport Monthly, Observer Music Monthly, Observer Woman and Observer Food Monthly. Content from The Observer is included in <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian_Weekly" title="The Guardian Weekly">The Guardian Weekly</a> for an international readership. The Observer followed its daily partner <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> and converted to <a href="/wiki/Berliner_(format)" title="Berliner (format)">Berliner</a> format on Sunday 8 January 2006.<a href="#cite_note-GuardianObserverRelaunch1-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-GuardianObserverRelaunch2-14">[14]</a> The Observer was awarded the National Newspaper of the Year at the <a href="/wiki/British_Press_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="British Press Awards">British Press Awards</a> 2007.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Editor <a href="/wiki/Roger_Alton" title="Roger Alton">Roger Alton</a> stepped down at the end of 2007, and was replaced by his deputy, <a href="/wiki/John_Mulholland_(journalist)" title="John Mulholland (journalist)">John Mulholland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-guardian-20080103-16">[16]</a> In early 2010, the paper was restyled. An article on the paper's website previewing the new version stated that "The News section, which will incorporate Business and personal finance, will be home to a new section, Seven Days, offering a complete round-up of the previous week's main news from Britain and around the world, and will also focus on more analysis and comment."<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> In July 2021, <a href="/wiki/Ofcom" title="Ofcom">Ofcom</a> announced that The Guardian continued to be the UK's most widely used newspaper website and app for news and had increased its audience share by 1% over the preceding year. 23% of consumers, who used websites or apps for news, used The Guardian, which also hosts The Observer online content.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">when?</a>] This compared to 22% for the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a> website.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> In September 2024, The Guardian revealed it was in talks to sell The Observer to news website <a href="/wiki/Tortoise_Media" title="Tortoise Media">Tortoise Media</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Journalists at <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Media_Group" title="Guardian Media Group">Guardian Media Group</a> passed a vote to condemn the sale and passed a vote of no confidence in the newspaper’s owners, accusing it of betrayal amid concerns that the sale of the paper could harm the financial security of staff members.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Supplements_and_features">Supplements and features</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Supplements and features" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> After the paper was rejuvenated in early 2010, the main paper came with only a small number of supplements – Sport, The Observer Magazine, The New Review and The New York Times International Weekly, an 8-page supplement of articles selected from <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> that has been distributed with the paper since 2007. Every four weeks the paper includes The Observer Food Monthly magazine, and in September 2013 it launched Observer Tech Monthly,<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> a science and technology section which won the Grand Prix at the 2014 Newspaper Awards.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Previously, the main paper had come with a larger range of supplements including Sport, Business & Media, Review, Escape (a travel supplement), The Observer Magazine and various special interest monthlies, such as The Observer Food Monthly, Observer Women monthly which was launched in 2006,<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Observer Sport Monthly and The Observer Film Magazine. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="The_Newsroom">The Newsroom</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Newsroom" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> The Observer and its sister newspaper The Guardian operate a visitor centre in London called The Newsroom. It contains their archives, including bound copies of old editions, a photographic library and other items such as diaries, letters and notebooks. This material may be consulted by members of the public. The Newsroom also mounts temporary exhibitions and runs an educational programme for schools.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In November 2007, The Observer and The Guardian made their archives available over the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The current extent of the archives available are 1791 to 2000 for The Observer and 1821 to 2000 for The Guardian. They will eventually go up to 2003. In 2023, copies from 2004 onwards and gaps were to be filled to latest edition.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Bans">Bans</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bans" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> The paper was banned in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> in February 2008 for publishing cartoons of the <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Prophet Muhammed</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Editors">Editors</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Editors" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <ul><li>W. S. Bourne & W. H. Bourne (1791–1807)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Doxat" title="Lewis Doxat">Lewis Doxat</a> (1807–1857)</li> <li>Joseph Snowe (1857–1870)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Dicey" title="Edward Dicey">Edward Dicey</a> (1870–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Duff_Traill" title="Henry Duff Traill">Henry Duff Traill</a> (1889–1891)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Beer" title="Rachel Beer">Rachel Beer</a> (1891–1904)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Harrison" title="Austin Harrison">Austin Harrison</a> (1904–1908)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Louis_Garvin" class="mw-redirect" title="James Louis Garvin">James Louis Garvin</a> (1908–1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivor_Brown" title="Ivor Brown">Ivor Brown</a> (1942–1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Astor" title="David Astor">David Astor</a> (1948–1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trelford" title="Donald Trelford">Donald Trelford</a> (1975–1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Fenby" title="Jonathan Fenby">Jonathan Fenby</a> (1993–1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jaspan" title="Andrew Jaspan">Andrew Jaspan</a> (1995–1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Hutton" title="Will Hutton">Will Hutton</a> (1996–1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Alton" title="Roger Alton">Roger Alton</a> (1998–2007)<a href="#cite_note-theguardian.com-6">[6]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mulholland_(journalist)" title="John Mulholland (journalist)">John Mulholland</a> (2008–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Webster_(journalist)" title="Paul Webster (journalist)">Paul Webster</a> (2018–present)<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Photographers">Photographers</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Photographers" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Bown" title="Jane Bown">Jane Bown</a> (resident from 1949 until her death in 2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Heydinger" title="Stuart Heydinger">Stuart Heydinger</a> (1960–1966)<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Olmos" title="Antonio Olmos">Antonio Olmos</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Borden" title="Harry Borden">Harry Borden</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Peto" title="Michael Peto">Michael Peto</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Jones_(photographer)" title="Colin Jones (photographer)">Colin Jones</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Chalkley" title="Dean Chalkley">Dean Chalkley</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_McCullin" title="Don McCullin">Don McCullin</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Jones_Griffiths" title="Philip Jones Griffiths">Philip Jones Griffiths</a> (freelance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giles_Duley" title="Giles Duley">Giles Duley</a> (freelance)</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Awards" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> The Observer was named the <a href="/wiki/British_Press_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="British Press Awards">British Press Awards</a> National Newspaper of the Year for 2006.<a href="#cite_note-gazetteroll-30">[30]</a> Its supplements have three times won "Regular Supplement of the Year" (Sport Monthly, 2001; Food Monthly, 2006, 2012).<a href="#cite_note-gazetteroll-30">[30]</a> Observer journalists have won a range of British Press Awards, including<a href="#cite_note-gazetteroll-30">[30]</a> <ul><li>"Interviewer of the Year" (<a href="/wiki/Lynn_Barber" title="Lynn Barber">Lynn Barber</a>, 2001; <a href="/wiki/Sean_O%27Hagan_(journalist)" title="Sean O'Hagan (journalist)">Sean O'Hagan</a>, 2002; <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Cooke" title="Rachel Cooke">Rachel Cooke</a>, 2005; Chrissy Iley (freelance for Observer and Sunday Times magazine), 2007)</li> <li>"Critic of the Year" (<a href="/wiki/Jay_Rayner" title="Jay Rayner">Jay Rayner</a>, 2005; <a href="/wiki/Philip_French" title="Philip French">Philip French</a>, 2008; <a href="/wiki/Rowan_Moore" title="Rowan Moore">Rowan Moore</a>, 2013)</li> <li>"Food & Drink Writer of the Year" (John Carlin, 2003)</li> <li>"Travel Writer of the Year" (Tim Moore, 2004)</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Observer&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit 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data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="দি অবজার্ভার – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="দি অবজার্ভার" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%B7%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80" title="Обзървър – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Обзървър" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1" title="آبزرور – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آبزرور" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Observer" title="An Observer – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="An Observer" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%B5%EC%A0%80%EB%B2%84_(%EC%8B%A0%EB%AC%B8)" title="옵저버 (신문) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="옵저버 (신문)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A8" title="האובזרבר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="האובזרבר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC_(%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AE%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E)" title="オブザーバー (イギリスの新聞) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="オブザーバー (イギリスの新聞)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D" title="தி அப்சர்வர் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="தி அப்சர்வர்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9A%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%9F%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C" title="ดิออบเซิร์ฟเวอร์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ดิออบเซิร์ฟเวอร์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Обзервер – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Обзервер" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1" title="آبزرور – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="آبزرور" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="The Observer" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A7%80%E5%AF%9F%E5%AE%B6%E5%A0%B1" title="觀察家報 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="觀察家報" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">中文</a></li></ul> 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