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Alexi Duggins is the Guardian's Deputy TV editor.

Alexi Duggins is an award-winning journalist. Or at least that's what his mum tells her friends. He's a regular contributor to 'The Guardian', 'Time Out' and 'NME' and has written for 'The Telegraph', 'The Independent on Sunday', 'Tatler', 'Marie Claire' and many more on the topic of food, music, television, new cultural trends, life as a 21st-century man about town and the weird and wonderful city that is London. In 2017, the 'Dear World' letter that he wrote following the Brexit vote won 'Best Cover' at the Digital Magazine Awards (Second category down), he was 'highly commended' as 'Best Print Writer' in the 2017 British Society of Magazine Editors Talent Awards and his Skepta interview  for Time Out won an 'honourable mention' for Best Features Package at the 2016 Eddie Awards.

As a media pundit, Alexi's appeared on numerous shows including Sky News, BBC Radio London and a few of those talking head shows that it's definitely not going to sound impressive to name.

He also wrote this himself, but pretended like someone else did it for him. He's sneaky like that.

King's College London
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy
2000 - 2003
Grade: First

Deputy Tv editor
The Guardian · Full-time
May 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos
Deputy editor of The Guardian’s Tv and radio desk

Freelance Journalist
Freelance (Self employed)
Feb 2015 - Jun 2024 · 9 yrs 5 mos
London Area, United Kingdom
Regular contributor to ‘The Guardian’, ‘Time Out’ and ‘NME’. I have written for ‘The Telegraph’, ‘The Independent on Sunday’, 'The Times', ‘Tatler’, ‘Marie Claire’ and many more on the topic of food, music, television and new cultural trends. I write pieces to - often tight - weekly and daily deadlines.

Commissioning Editor
The Guardian Labs
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr
London Area, United Kingdom
Devised ideas for editorial campaigns for the Guardian’s commercial clients, pitching numerous concepts a week - securing £860,000 of projects in 11 months. Created ideas based on budgets, tailoring formats to finances.

Editor-at-large
Time Out Group plc
Jun 2012 - Jun 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo
London Area, United Kingdom
Wrote features and reviews across all sections of the magazine/website to daily and weekly deadlines.

Time Out Group plc
4 yrs 6 mos
London Area, United Kingdom
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Feb 2009 - Apr 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos
Contributed articles across all sections of Time Out magazine, with particular focus on features. Wrote my own weekly TV column: ‘Airtime’.

TV Journalist
Nov 2007 - Feb 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos
Wrote TV reviews, listings and features to weekly deadlines. Regularly represented Time Out at industry events.

Itchy Group
Features Editor
May 2006 - Nov 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos
Oversaw all aspects of national features content of the 12 Itchy city guides – the UK’s best-selling travel guides, the 10 editions of the quarterly Itchy magazine and the 17 Itchy websites – collectively named one of FHM’s ‘Top 100 Websites’ during my tenure. Chaired weekly meetings, commissioned writers and liaised with designers and PR contacts.

So he's just some 40 year old white dude who does nothing but write his opinion about shit. Yeah, of course he thinks he's morally superior and his mere existence is reason to lecture everyone else.

His linkedin photo isn't as flattering:


Super focused playing Civ on his Contact page:


Discovered this from looking him up:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/18/down-with-fish-chips-most-disgusting-meal