Alison Webster (photographer)

Alison Valda Webster[1] is the official Page 3 photographer for The Sun newspaper.[3] She has worked in the British national newspaper industry for 30 years,[4] and has been the principal Page 3 photographer since 2005.[3]

Alison Webster
Born
Alison Valda Webster[1]
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhotographer
EmployerThe Sun newspaper
News Corp UK
PredecessorAlan Strutt
Spouse(s)Geoff Webster
ChildrenCharlie Jacks[2]
and Benjamin E. Jacks[1]
Websitealisonwebster.co.uk

Controversy

Campaigners against the Page 3 feature include the campaign group, No More Page 3. When asked about the campaign Webster said that, "people should be able to make their own choices."[3] She has also commented, "The photographs have stayed the same for 40 years. They've not got any more explicit. It staggers me that some, particularly young people, still have an issue with them. ... The argument is the wrong way round. If you have a problem with your body, if, as a child, you grew up with certain body issues, then I can see how Page Three could affect you. But if you are comfortable with yourself then it will have no effect on you at all."[5]

Private life

Webster is married to the deputy editor of The Sun, Geoff Webster, who was cleared in March 2015, along with colleagues, of making illegal payments to public officials after a trial at the Old Bailey. The journalists had been charged as part of Operation Elveden.[6]

Webster nearly died as a result of blood clots causing pulmonary hypertension, but was operated on in 2011.

gollark: I mostly use it to follow somewhat interesting stuff like a thread on exotic political compasses.
gollark: Also his actual tweets, quite often.
gollark: The mostly irrelevant village I live in has had 4G connectivity for a year or so, which is nice. I wish they'd roll that out more rather than overhyping pointless 5G.
gollark: The law is with you as long as few enough people start saying wrong things™ on the internet (or, well, specifically your platform) that people start complaining a lot. Public opinion might not be. The issue with making a new less-moderated version of something is that it inevitably attracts a few people who genuinely care about free speech a lot, and probably a lot who want to say terrible/stupid things somewhere.
gollark: My website is very size-optimized and does a lot of caching.

See also
Media offices
Preceded by
Alan Strutt		 Page 3 photographer The Sun
2011–present		 Incumbent

References
  1. "Electoral Roll records from 2009–13". 192.com. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. Sturgess, Trevor, business editor (6 January 2012). "Meet the Page Three girls snapper". Kent Business. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  3. Jukes, Peter (22 April 2013). "The End of Rupert Murdoch's Page 3 Girl?". Newsweek. in The Daily Beast. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  4. Vellacott, James (9 August 2010). "Page Three photography". ePHOTOzine. Magezine Publishing. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  5. Rehman, Najeeb (17 September 2012). "Should Page Three be banned?". Body Confidential. Confidential Publishing. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  6. "Sun journalists cleared in payments trial". BBC News. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
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