Ian Katz
| Ian Katz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 South Africa |
| Residence | London |
| Education | University College School, Hampstead, London |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | BBC News |
| Notable credit(s) | BBC Newsnight |
| Spouse(s) | Justine Roberts |
| Children | 4 children |
Ian Katz (born 1967) is a British journalist who is the editor of the Newsnight current affairs programme on BBC Two. Earlier Katz followed a career in print journalism, and was previously a deputy editor of The Guardian until 2013.
Born into a Jewish family, although his "identification" as a Jew is "flimsier than most", he spent the first ten years of his life in South Africa. At that point, Katz and his family moved to London.
Katz was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in North West London, followed by New College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
After a brief period working on a newspaper in Costa Rica, Katz joined the short-lived Sunday Correspondent as a graduate trainee in 1989 along with Jonathan Freedland, a future colleague. During the following year Katz moved to The Guardian remaining there until his BBC appointment in 2013, apart taking up a Laurence Stern fellowship at The Washington Post in 1993. During his period at The Guardian, he was successively a reporter, foreign correspondent (in New York 1994–97), editor of the G2 supplement for eight years and has been responsible for the Saturday (2006–08) and the weekday editions of the newspaper,
Katz was responsible for the then new guardian.co.uk website in 1998. As features editor in January 2003, he ran an image commissioned from artist Gillian Wearing for the G2 front cover which consisted of the words: "Fuck Cilla Black". Intended to promote an article about the decline in the quality of British television, readers complained about the decline in the quality of newspaper journalism. Black's agent, her son Robert Willis, described it as a "cheap publicity stunt", and Wearing apologised for the offence caused.
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