Rob BlackhurstAbout me
Rob Blackhurst is a journalist, publisher, and communications consultant. He has written for publications including the International Herald Tribune, the New Statesman, The Observer, and British Journalism Review, and contributed leader columns to the Independent and Independent on Sunday. Now he writes mainly for FT Weekend – for whom he has interviewed Clive James, George Martin, David Frost, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O Connor, and Denis and Edna Healey – amongst others
He has also written regular cover stories for FT Magazine since 2005 – assignments in which he has gone back to his old comp to examine meritocracy, had his brown shoes mocked by Prince Andrew, shot the breeze with skateboarding Friars, interviewed the 9/11 families, visited the most remote island in Britain, and attended a training camp for Creationist home-schooling parents.
In tandem with his journalism, he also commissions Current Affairs books for Constable Robinson publishers, and has provided communications support for organisations including the New-York based Center on International Cooperation, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, Bertelsmann Siftung think-tank and the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Rob was Editorial and Communications Director at the Foreign Policy Centre between 2000 and 2005. Before then, he was a Press Officer in the Cabinet Office, DTI and Foreign Office. He lives in Walthamstow in East London.
He can be contacted on rob@robblackhurst.org.