Stephen Pollard will take up his position with the national Jewish weekly newspaper next month.
By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT IN LONDONpollard 224.88(photo credit: Courtesy)
LONDON - Author and journalist Stephen Pollard has been named as the new editor of the Jewish Chronicle.
Pollard, a columnist with The Times and for a number of other newspapers, including the Daily Mail, will take up his position with the national Jewish weekly newspaper next month. He replaces David Rowan, who has been named editor of a UK version of the technology magazine Wired.
As an author, Pollard has written a biography of former home secretary David Blunkett. He is currently president of a Brussels-based think tank, the Center for the New Europe, as well as chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism, a London-based think tank launched in parliament in July.
An expert also on health and education policy, Pollard was an expert witness before the US Senate in 2005, testifying in the HELP Committee's inquiry into drug importation.
Pollard is likely to come into contact with his former employer at the Daily Express, proprietor Richard Desmond, a prominent benefactor to a number of Jewish charities. When Desmond took over the Express, where Pollard was a columnist and chief editorial writer, the latter resigned, moving to The Times in 2001.
Pollard has a blog at The Spectator magazine at spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard http://spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard.
