Lucy Rock is a British newspaper editor. Rock studied at

Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College ( ) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete. It is one of the wealthiest Oxford colleges, as of 2022, and ...

, graduating in 1988. She became a journalist, and worked in various positions at the ''

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'', then became deputy news editor at the ''

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''. In 2004, she was appointed as news editor at ''

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' ...

'', serving until 2015. In 2015, she relocated to

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, writing for both ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian''. She returned to the UK in 2018, and was appointed as deputy editor of ''The Observer''. In December 2024, the newspaper was sold to Tortoise Media, which appointed Rock as editor of the print edition. She became the first female editor of ''The Observer'' since

Rachel Beer Rachel Beer (''née'' Sassoon; 7 April 1858 – 29 April 1927) was an Indian-born British newspaper editor. She was editor-in-chief of ''The Observer'' and ''The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times''. Early life Rachel Sassoon was born in Mumba ...

, more than a century earlier.

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