Ben Chacko

Ben Chacko
Born	Ben Patrick Chacko 1984 (age 32–33) Camden, London, England
Nationality	British
Education	St John's College, Oxford
Occupation	Journalist
Known for	Editor of the Morning Star

Ben Patrick Chacko (born 1984) is a British journalist. He is the editor of the Morning Star. After joining the newspaper in 2010, he became editor in 2015.

Chacko was born in Camden, London in 1984. His father, Francis Chacko, who came to Britain from India at the age of eight, is an actuary, while his Lancashire-born mother Sarah Chacko (née Willcock) is a software engineer who studied for a PhD at the University of Oxford. His brother is the tax barrister Thomas Chacko, of Pump Court Tax Chambers. Ben Chacko was raised in Cheltenham, and educated at the local Pate's Grammar School, and St John's College, Oxford, where he studied Mandarin Chinese.

Chacko credits his conversion to communism to a recommendation from his mother when he was a teenager that he abandon the Socialist Worker newspaper, published by the Socialist Workers Party, for something more genuinely "leftie", such as the Morning Star. Chacko found the Star "a real revelation".

By the age of 15, Chacko was attending meetings of the Young Communist League. He edited Challenge, the journal of the Young Communist League and was a member of the student union council at Oxford.

Chacko was appointed editor of the Morning Star in May 2015, the youngest editor of the paper since its founding editor, William Rust. He joined the paper as a sub-editor in 2010, and was subsequently deputy features editor, assistant editor and deputy editor before being appointed acting editor in July 2014. "The Star is the most precious and only voice we have in the daily media", said the Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn at the time of Chacko's appointment in May 2015. "I look forward to working with Ben in promoting socialism and progress".

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