After losing power, Britain's Osborne starts first day as journalist
Veteran journalists have mocked his lack of editorial experience and potential conflicts of interest.
He already has a part-time job with a salary of 650,000 pounds ($836,810) a year for working 48 days at asset manager BlackRock, and earned hundreds of thousands of pounds giving speeches.
Once regarded as a future leader of Britain's ruling Conservative Party, Osborne has opposed some of Prime Minister Theresa May's policies and has said he wants the Evening Standard to be a "fearless" newspaper.
While at the University of Oxford, Osborne dabbled in student journalism and was proud enough of his efforts to display the two issues of the magazine he edited in his Downing Street flat while chancellor.