Jackie Ashley
| Jackie Ashley | |
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| President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge | |
| Hon. | |
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Assumed office October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Janet Todd |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jacqueline Ashley 10 September 1954 St Pancras, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Marr (m. 1987) |
| Children | 1 son and 2 daughters |
| Relatives | Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke (father, deceased) |
| Education | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Jacqueline Ashley (born 10 September 1954, St Pancras, London), known as Jackie Ashley, is an English journalist and broadcaster.
Ashley was born in St Pancras, London, England. She is the daughter of Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke (1922–2012), a former Labour Party politician, and Pauline Kay Ashley (née Crispin; 1932–2003).
She was educated at Rosebery Grammar School for Girls, a grammar school in Epsom, Surrey. She went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. She was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.
She has been a television news reporter and newspaper journalist, writing for the New Statesman and The Guardian. She specializes in the Labour Party, the media, politics, public services, trade unions and women's issues. She was broadly a supporter of Gordon Brown's government.
Having graduated from university, she spent two years, from 1979-81, as a trainee with the BBC. She was a producer and newsreader on Newsnight from 1981-84. Then, from 1984-86, she was a reporter on TV-am, and a producer and reporter on Channel 4. She moved to ITN in 1986, where she was a political correspondent. She then moved from television to journalism, and was political editor of the New Statesman from 2000 to 2002. Since 2002, she has been a columnist and political interviewer for The Guardian.
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