# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-randall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:23:05.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-randall"
name: "David Randall"
slug: "david-randall"
description: "David Randall was a British journalist and author of The Universal Journalist, a textbook on journalism. He was assistant editor of The Observer until 1998, when he joined The Independent on Sunday and worked there until retiring in 2013."
tagline: "British journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951"
deathDate: "2021-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4545454545454546
  historical:           6.338301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديفيد راندال"
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    title: "David Randall"
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    title: "David Randall"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Randall"
    title: "David Randall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump