Richard Spencer

Richard John Spencer (born 3 June 1965) is a British journalist. He is the middle east editor for The Times and previously in the same post at The Daily Telegraph. Background Spencer was educated at Sherborne School and Lincoln College, Oxford. He has previously worked for six years as the newspaper's Beijing correspondent before moving to Dubai, United Arab Emirates to take up his new post as one of their Middle East correspondents. Spencer moved to Cairo, Egypt in the wake of the Arab Spring for ease of coverage. A former blogger for The Daily Telegraph, he is known for his witty anecdotes and dry sense of humour. Spencer was the first Western journalist to reach Yingxiu after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake where 80% of the town had been destroyed.