Archie Bland

Archie Bland
Born
James Franklin Archibald Bland

(1983-10-07) 7 October 1983
Abbots Worthy, Hampshire, England
EducationWinchester College, Hampshire
(Private boarding school)
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • editor
  • author
EmployerThe Guardian
Spouse
Ruth Spencer
(m. 2019)
FatherChristopher Bland

James Franklin Archibald "Archie" Bland (born 7 October 1983), is a British newspaper journalist who wrote The Guardian's daily morning newsletter First Edition from 2022 to 2025.

Bland was previously the deputy editor of The Independent, a national British newspaper, a post to which he was appointed in April 2012, at the age of 28. He was also the editor of the Saturday edition of The Independent. He was one of the youngest people to have ever been appointed to a senior editorial post in the British national newspaper industry, described as "easily the youngest deputy editor in the paper's history, the youngest in national newspapers today and perhaps ever on Fleet Street".