Alex Brummer

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Alex Brummer
Born (1949-05-25) 25 May 1949 (age 74)
Brighton, England
Occupation(s)Journalist, editor, author
Notable credit(s)City Editor, Daily Mail

Alex Brummer (born 25 May 1949) is an English economics commentator, working as a journalist, editor, and author. He has been the city editor of the Daily Mail (London) since May 2000, where he writes a daily column on economics and finance. He was the financial editor of The Guardian between 1990 and 1999.

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He is a regular contributor to The Jewish Chronicle (London), writing extensively on business, the media, the Holocaust, and Middle East policy.

Brummer also writes "The Money" article for the New Statesman and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance magazine. [1] He is a Vice-President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Career

Born in Brighton, he has a degree in economics and politics from the University of Southampton and an MBA from Bradford University Management Centre. Brummer began his career at J. Walter Thompson and Haymarket Publishing between 1970 and 1972. He then joined The Guardian as the Financial Correspondent. He was the main reporter on the fringe banking crisis of 1973/4 and the 1976 sterling crisis.

In 1979, he became the US financial and Washington correspondent for The Guardian. He covered the 1980, 1984, and 1988 US presidential elections for the newspaper. His work in this area earned him the 1989 Overseas Press Club award for the best foreign correspondent in the US. Brummer then took up positions as a foreign editor and financial editor, and completed his twenty-six-year tenure at The Guardian as associate editor.

He worked as consultant editor for the Financial Mail on Sunday between 1999 and 2000 and was voted Financial Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In 2000, he became the city editor of the Daily Mail . Brummer covered the 2003 Iraq War for the Daily Mail from Washington, D.C., and led the newspaper's coverage on the 2007 run on Northern Rock, collapse of Lehman Brothers, and subsequent credit crunch.

On 4 February 2009, Brummer appeared as a witness at the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, along with Robert Peston (BBC), Lionel Barber (Financial Times), Simon Jenkins (The Guardian), and Jeff Randall (Sky News) to answer questions on the role of the media in financial stability and "whether financial journalists should operate under any form of reporting restrictions during banking crises". [2]

Honours

In 2014 Brummer was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the University by Bradford University.

Books

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References

  1. "Who We Are". Jewish Renaissance. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  2. "Treasury Committee".