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Anthony Longden
Anthony Longden has been a journalist for more than 30 years, twenty of them spent as an editor and senior editorial executive in various regional companies in the United Kingdom, including Newsquest and Trinity Mirror. He has ben a member of the Society of Editors’ Parliamentary and Legal Committee since 1999, lobbying on behalf of the media industry across a wide range of issues. He helped draft several of the Society’s modules of evidence for the Leveson Inquiry. He completed a three-year term as an editorial member of the Press Complaints Commission in September 2012. PCC Chairman Lord Hunt of Wirral asked him to stay on as a consultant to assist with the transition towards the new Independent Press Standards Organisation. He now works as a consultant, advising the SoE, and a freelance journalist. He is a Specialist Partner at Alder, a London-based management and communications consultancy, and is a judge for the annual UK national and regional newspaper awards.