John Lloyd

John Nicol Fortune Lloyd (born 15 April 1946) is a British journalist who is currently contributing editor at the Financial Times and an Associate Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Background Lloyd was born and raised in Anstruther, Fife, by his grandparents and his mother, a beautician. He was educated at Waid Academy in the town and, after spending a short period working as a caddie in Canada, attended the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an upper-second class MA (Hons) degree in English literature in 1967.

Career Lloyd was initially employed as a writer for the alternative press, contributing articles to publications such as Ink and the London listings magazine Time Out, where he worked in the news section as Belfast correspondent. In 2006, he co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

Lloyd is a member of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He has won awards for his 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.

His books include Loss Without Limit: The British Miners' Strike (with Martin Adeney, 1985); Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia (1998), What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics (2004), Reporting the EU: News, Media and the European Institutions (with Cristina Marconi, 2014), 'The Power and the Story' (2017) and Should Auld Alliance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence (2020).

Personal life Lloyd is married with one son, the actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who portrayed the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein in the biopic Midas Man, from a previous marriage.