The Spectator the ladder to high office in the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. Past editors include Boris Johnson (1999–2005) and other former cabinet members Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour, and Nigel Lawson. In late 2008, "Spectator Australia" was launched; the current editor is Rowan Dean. This offers 12 pages of "Unique Australian Content" (including a separate editorial page) in addition to the full UK contents. Readership of "The Spectator Australia" was revealed through a court case as being 3,000. "The Spectator"s founding editor, the Dundonian reformer Robert Stephen Rintoul, launched the paper in July 1828 with a first issue for the
Robert Wilson (editor) "USA Today", where he was a book columnist as well as an editor. He was a founding literary editor at "Civilization", a magazine published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. "Civilization" won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. In 1996, Wilson became the editor of "Preservation", the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under Wilson, "Preservation" won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 2004 Wilson briefly served as editor of the "AARP Bulletin", then became the seventh editor of "The American Scholar", six months after that journal had dismissed