Editing The Spectator (section)

===Matthew d'Ancona===
[[Matthew d'Ancona|D’Ancona]] had been Deputy Editor at ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'', and before that an assistant editor at ''The Times''. During his four years as editor of ''The Spectator'', he made several editorial and structural changes to the magazine, "not all of which were universally popular with readers". He ended the traditional summary of the week's events, "Portrait of the Week", and in 2006 launched a new lifestyle section entitled "You Earned It". He removed [[Peter Oborne]] as political editor, and appointed [[Fraser Nelson]] in his place.  He decided not to appoint a new media columnist to succeed [[Stephen Glover (columnist)|Stephen Glover]], explaining, "I do not think ''The Spectator'' needs a media columnist. Our pages are precious and I do not think the internal wranglings of our trade are high on the list of ''Spectator'' readers’ priorities."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brook |first=Stephen |date=9 May 2006 |title=Spectator editor says no to media columnist |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/09/pressandpublishing?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 |url-status=live |access-date=19 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201211152/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/09/pressandpublishing?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 |archive-date=1 February 2015}}</ref>

Perhaps the magazine's most important innovation under d’Ancona was the Coffee House blog, led by [[Peter Hoskin]] and [[James Forsyth (journalist)|James Forsyth]], launched in May 2007.<ref name="the new Editor of The Spectator">{{Cite web |date=28 August 2009 |title=Fraser Nelson is the new Editor of The Spectator |url=http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/08/fraser-nelson-is-new-editor-of-the-spectator.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620095838/http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/08/fraser-nelson-is-new-editor-of-the-spectator.html |archive-date=20 June 2012 |access-date=19 August 2012 |publisher=Conservative Home}}</ref> In 2007, ''The Spectator'' moved its offices from Doughty Street, which had been its home for 32 years, to 22 Old Queen Street in Westminster. ''The Spectator Australia'' was launched in October 2008. Apparently printed in Australia at the same time as, and with almost all the content of, the parent edition it finds its own cover illustrations and its first dozen pages are Australian.<ref>[https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/20/alarms-sound-as-the-australian-spectator-launches/ Crikey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303214934/https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/20/alarms-sound-as-the-australian-spectator-launches/ |date=3 March 2021 }} 20 February 2009, accessed 12 February 2021</ref> Circulation reached a weekly average of 10,389 in January to December 2020.<ref>[https://www.abc.org.uk/product/16941 Audit Bureau of Circulations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418022244/https://www.abc.org.uk/product/16941 |date=18 April 2021 }} accessed 12 February 2021</ref>