Index on Censorship is Britain’s leading organisation promoting freedom of expression. Our website provides up-to-the-minute news and information on free expression from around the world. A wide-ranging programme of events and projects put our causes into action. Our award-winning magazine shines a light on these vital issues through original, challenging and intelligent writing.
Index on Censorship was founded as a magazine in 1972, when editor Michael Scammell and a group of writers, journalists and artists, led by the British poet Stephen Spender, took to the page in defence of the basic human right of freedom of expression for writers in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries.
Index on Censorship has developed to become one of the world’s highest profile organisations promoting free expression, based around its website, award-winning magazine, projects and calendar of events.
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7324 2522
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Index on Censorship
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60 Farringdon Road
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Staff
Chief Executive – John Kampfner
Editor – Jo Glanville
Associate Editor and Deputy Chief Executive – Rohan Jayasekera
Online Editor – Emily Butselaar
News Editor – Padraig Reidy
Assistant Editor – Natasha Schmidt
Finance Director – David Sewell
Head of Advocacy - Michael Harris
Head of Arts – Julia Farrington
Head of Development – Lizzie Rusbridger
Head of Events – Sara Rhodes
Events Assistant – Eve Jackson
Board of trustees
Jonathan Dimbleby (Chair), Katie King, Lord Ken MacDonald QC, Anthony Barling, David Membrey, Matthew Parris
Patrons
Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Robert L Bernstein, Robert Borzello, Simon Callow, Sir Harold Evans, Nadine Gordimer, Richard Hamilton, Ian Hislop, Joel Joffe, Jude Kelly OBE, Michael Palin CBE, Gabrielle Rifkind, Philip Roth, Sir Tom Stoppard, Francis Wheen, Sue Woodford-Hollick, Alexandra Pringle, Christopher Hird
