Anne McElvoy

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Anne McElvoy
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McElvoy at the Horasis Global Meeting in 2019
Born (1965-06-25) 25 June 1965 (age 60)
County Durham, England [1]
Nationality British
Education
Occupations
Spouse
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(m. 1994)​
Children3
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]

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Early life

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]

Career

Newspapers

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]

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McElvoy at the Horasis Global Meeting in 2017

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.

Broadcasting

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. [2] [8] She was the head of Economist Radio, [2] and subsequently joined Politico as Executive Editor - Head of Audio in February 2023. [9]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "FreeBMD Entry info". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Anne McElvoy - Economist". Media Directory. The Economist. September 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. ↑ McElvoy, Anne (22 January 2012). "Grange Hill grows up". The Sunday Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Anne McElvoy". Wadham alumni. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  5. ↑ McElvoy, Anne (16 February 2008). "Britain just got Weller: meet the Jam Generation". The Spectator . Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "Anne McElvoy, Senior Editor, The Economist, UK". Reinventing Higher Education 2019. IE University. 2019.
  7. ↑ "EdTech Europe 2014". events.bizzabo.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Across the Red Line". BBC. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "POLITICO to double down on audio in Europe, hires renowned journalist Anne McElvoy as Executive Editor – Head of Audio". Politico Europe . 2 February 2023.
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