[2] In April 2005, along with his then editor Robert Thomson, he was served with a criminal libel summons from a French court by the Barclay Brothers over an article published in The Times in November 2004.
[4] Sabbagh was co-founder of the media news and entertainment website Beehive City, along with two former Times colleagues Adam Sherwin and Timothy Glanfield, and was a contributor prior to joining The Guardian.
[5] He was initially head of media and technology which included oversight of the Media Guardian website,[1] 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 was a Labour councillor for Vassall ward in the London Borough of Lambeth between August 1999 and May 2006.
[6] In 2010, he was media advisor to Oona King on her unsuccessful attempt to become the London Labour Mayoral candidate.