Jenni Russell
| Jenni Russell | |
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| Born | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Occupation | Columnist |
| Notable credit(s) |
Columnist at The Times, Columnist at The Sunday Times Former editor of The World Tonight |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Lambert |
| Children | One daughter, one son |
Columnist at The Times, Columnist at The Sunday Times
Jenni Russell is a British columnist and broadcaster. She is a columnist for The Times who also writes for The Sunday Times. She has been a columnist for The Guardian and written the Monday political column for The Evening Standard. She worked for many years at the BBC and ITN, most recently as editor of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. She is married to Stephen Lambert, a media executive, and lives in London.
Russell studied history at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and went on to become a BBC News trainee. She worked for the BBC, as well as ITN and Channel 4 News. In 1998 she became joint editor of BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, becoming one of the first people to pioneer job-sharing within the BBC.
On leaving the BBC, Russell began writing comment pieces for The Guardian and the New Statesman, before beginning to write regularly for The Sunday Times, for whom she also reviews books. She has been a vocal critic of the failings of the education system and criticised the increasing abuse of civil liberties under the last Labour government.
According to The Spectator she is a key figure in the New Establishment, due to her friendship with both Steve Hilton, David Cameron's director of strategy, and Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader.
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