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Anne McElvoy | |
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 McElvoy at the Horasis Global Meeting in 2019 | |
| Born | 25 June 1965 County Durham, England [1] |
| Nationality | British |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Alexander McElvoy Mary Margaret Bartley/McElvoy |
Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist, contributing to The Economist , London Evening Standard , and the BBC. [2]
McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham, [3] and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. [4] While at Oxford University, she edited Cherwell , the student newspaper. [5] She spent a year at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship. [6]
She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, writing frequently about the dissolution of eastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995, she became deputy editor of The Spectator , [7] as well as being a columnist on its sister publication, The Daily Telegraph . [2]
In 1997, McElvoy became associate editor of The Independent . In 2002 she moved to the Evening Standard as executive editor remaining until 2009, though she still contributes a weekly political column. In 2009 she joined The Economist . She wrote The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy, and is the co-author of Markus Wolf's best-selling memoir Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster.
She has been a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3 late-night discussion programme since 2009, initially on Night Waves , and then its successor programme, Free Thinking. She has also appeared on BBC2's Newsnight Review , contributes to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze as well as presenting Across the Red Line, bringing two figures on opposing sides of a debate together with conflict resolution experts to listen to each other. [8] [9] She was the head of Economist Radio., [2] and subsequently joined Politico as Executive Editor - Head of Audio in February 2023. [10]
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