John Lloyd was the Founding Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is now Senior Research Fellow. He is contributing editor to the Financial Times, chairman of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies and a columnist for Reuters.com and La Repubblica of Rome. He has won awards for journalism, including 'Specialist Writer of the Year' in the British Press Awards and 'Journalist of the Year' in the Granada What the Papers Say Awards.