Katharine Viner, The Guardian's new U.S. editor, is a Smiths die-hard

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Three years after The Guardian sailed stateside with a website designed to import the newspaper’s British sensibility to Americans, Guardian U.S. is embarking on the next leg of its voyage.

The operation is heading west with a Silicon Valley-based office that will complement its New York flagship and small D.C. bureau. Expansion is likewise in the cards at the downtown Manhattan home-base, which has snowballed from around a dozen employees at the time of its September 2011 debut to nearly 70 today. This September also marks the entry of two new lieutenants: C.E.O. Eamonn Store, a former Royal Navy pilot trainee with more than a decade of media-agency experience, and editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, a 17-year Guardian vet fresh off an assignment that brought the 193-year-old brand Down Under as of May 27, 2013, with a digital publication for Australians.

From the article:

Viner, a radiant 43, with a warm smile and long dark-blonde hair, grew up in a small Yorkshire market town with teachers for parents and an obsession with The Smiths that was requisite for any bookish Brit worth their salt in the ‘80s. (She told me her biggest life regret was passing up an opportunity at age 16 to be an extra in the music video for “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” because she had a German exam that day; she made up for it by contributing to fanzines about the legendary Manchester quartet.)
 
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Wasn't she in editorial control over the Simon Armitage interview that led to the "sub-species" saga?
 

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