Jonathan Heawood is an English journalist and literary editor.
He is Executive Director of the Public Interest News Foundation,[1] the first journalism charity in the UK to be awarded charitable status.
[2] Heawood is the founder and former CEO of IMPRESS, the only press regulator recognised under Royal Charter in the United Kingdom.
[3] He is a former director of programmes at the Sigrid Rausing Trust, a private human rights foundation, Director of the English Centre of International PEN,[4] deputy literary editor of The Observer and editor of the Fabian Review.
He writes on cultural and political issues for a number of publications, including the Telegraph, Independent, The Guardian, London Review of Books and New Statesman.