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'''Dan Sabbagh''' (born [[1971]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[journalist]], currently the media editor of ''[[The Times]]''. He previously worked as a city reporter at [[The Daily Telegraph]] and as senior reporter on the magazine ''[[Computing (magazine)|Computing]]'.
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'''Daniel "Dan" Sabbagh''' (born 1971) is a British [[journalist]] who is the defence and security editor of ''[[The Guardian]]'' (appointed in January 2018), having previously been national news editor.<ref name="NNE">[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/18/guardian-appoints-dan-sabbagh-editor-national-news "Guardian appoints Dan Sabbagh as national news editor"], guardian.co.uk, 18 January 2013</ref>
 
Sabbagh worked as senior reporter on the magazine ''[[Computing (magazine)|Computing]]'' and as a city reporter at ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' before joining ''[[The Times]]'' where he was telecoms correspondent and then media editor between 2004 and 2009, when he resigned.<ref>'Media Monkey' [https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2009/nov/27/farewell-times-dan-sabbagh "A farewell to the Times's Dan Sabbagh"], ''The Guardian'', 27 November 2009</ref>
In April [[2005]], along with his editor [[Robert James Thomson|Robert Thomson]], he was served with a [[criminal libel]] summons from a [[France|French]] court by the [[David and Frederick Barclay|Barclay Brothers]] over an article published in ''The Times'' in November [[2004]].
 
In April 2005, along with his then editor [[Robert James Thomson|Robert Thomson]], he was served with a [[criminal libel]] summons from a French court by the [[David and Frederick Barclay|Barclay Brothers]] over an article published in ''The Times'' in November 2004.<ref>Dominic Ponsford [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/30265 "Times editor blasts Barclays for suing in French courts"], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621020511/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/30265 |date=21 June 2013 }} ''Press Gazette'', 20 April 2005</ref> That action was eventually dropped, and ''The Times'' published a statement in February 2007.<ref>Chris Tryhorn [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/feb/09/pressandpublishing.thetimes "Barclays drop Times libel case"], ''The Guardian'', 9 February 2007</ref>
He was also elected as a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] councillor in the London Borough of [[London Borough of Lambeth|Lambeth]] between August 1999 and May 2006.
 
Sabbagh was co-founder of the media news and entertainment website [http://www.beehivecity.com Beehive City], along with two former ''Times'' colleagues [[Adam Sherwin]] and Timothy Glanfield, and was a contributor prior to joining ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name="Ponsford1110">Dominic Ponsford [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/7132 "Former Times media editor Dan Sabbagh joins The Guardian"], ''Press Gazette'', 1 November 2010</ref>
 
He joined ''The Guardian'' in November 2010.<ref name="Ponsford1110"/> He was initially head of media and technology which included oversight of the Media Guardian website,<ref name="NNE"/> then became national news editor, running the home department during the 2014 Scottish referendum, the 2016 EU referendum as well as general elections in 2015 and 2017. He returned to reporting as associate editor, covering politics and based in Westminster. He was in Westminster throughout 2018, during the final stages of the Brexit negotiations and their passage through parliament.
 
He was a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] councillor for [[Vassall ward]] in the [[London Borough of Lambeth]] between August 1999 and May 2006.<ref>[http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/moderngov/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=94&RPID=0 "Vassall ward" 2 May 2002]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, London Borough of Lambeth website</ref> In 2010, he was media advisor to [[Oona King]] on her unsuccessful attempt to become the London Labour Mayoral candidate.<ref>Gideon Spanier [https://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/ready-for-a-legal-fight-over-project-canvas-6478570.html "Ready for a legal fight over Project Canvas - Sabbagh is King's right hand man"], ''Evening Standard'', 9 June 2010</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/dansabbagh Dan Sabbagh on Twitter]
*[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/210405/times_editor_blasts Times editor blasts Barclays for suing in French courts] from [[Press Gazette]], [[21 April]] [[2005]].
*[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dan-sabbagh Sabbagh's ''Guardian'' contributor page]
 
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