{{short description|British journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{for|the squash player|Roland Watson (squash player)}} '''Roland Watson''' is a British journalist who is currently foreign editor for ''The Times''.
He was educated at Eton College.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eton eternal: How one school came to dominate public life|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2013/05/eton-eternal-how-one-school-came-dominate-public-life|work=New Statesman|date=8 May 2013|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> He was previously political editor of ''The Times'' from 2010<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/new-political-editor-and-other-changes-at-the-times/|title=New political editor and other changes at The Times|work=Press Gazette|date=12 November 2009|access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref> to 2013, having joined ''The Times'' in 1998 as a political correspondent.<ref>{{cite news|title=Francis Elliott replaces Roland Watson as Times political editor|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/francis-elliott-replaces-roland-watson-times-political-editor|work=Press Gazette|date=20 June 2013|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-media}} {{s-bef|before=Philip Webster}} {{s-ttl|title=Political Editor of ''The Times''|years=2010–2013}} {{s-aft|after=Francis Elliott}} {{s-end}}
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