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"Katharine Viner" (born 1971) is a British journalist and playwright who is deputy editor of The Guardian. She has headed The Guardians web operations in Australia, and moved to New York in September 2014 to take up responsibility for her newspaper's online presence in the United States.

Raised in Yorkshire, the daughter of teachers, Viner was educated at Ripon Grammar School and read English at the University of Oxford. Just before her finals, Viner won a competition organised by The Guardian's women's page and was advised to pursue a career in journalism.

After periods on Cosmopolitan (magazine)/Cosmopolitan and The Sunday Times Magazine, Viner joined The Guardian in 1997, at first working on the women's page, and became editor of the Saturday Weekend supplement in 1998. She became features editor in 2006 and deputy editor in 2008 at the same time as Ian Katz.

In January 2013, Viner's relocation to Sydney to supervise a new Guardian digital edition in Australia was announced; this venture was launched in May 2013. In the summer of 2014, Viner will move to New York and become the new head of The Guardians American website in succession to Janine Gibson. Viner will remain deputy editor of Guardian News & Media.