Jackie Ashley | |
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President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge | |
In office October 2015 –2018 | |
Preceded by | Janet Todd |
Succeeded by | Madeleine Atkins |
Personal details | |
Born | Jacqueline Ashley 10 September 1954 London,England |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | Jack Ashley Pauline Crispin |
Education | St Anne's College, Oxford |
Occupation | Journalist |
Jacqueline Ashley (born 10 September 1954) is an English journalist and broadcaster. [1] [2]
Ashley was born in St Pancras, London. [3] She is the daughter of Pauline Kay ( née Crispin) and Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, a Labour MP and life peer.
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, Oxford. She was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.
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She has been a television news reporter and newspaper journalist, writing for the New Statesman and The Guardian . [4] She specialises 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 print media, 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 .
From October 2015 to October 2018, Ashley was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. [5] [6] She has been a trustee of the Carers Trust since July 2019. [7] [8]
Jackie Ashley married fellow journalist Andrew Marr in Surrey in August 1987; they live in Primrose Hill, North London. The couple have a son and two daughters. [9]
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