Miranda Green is a British journalist, and the former Press Secretary to then Liberal Democrats party leader Paddy Ashdown. [1]
Green went to Westminster School before studying English at Jesus College, Cambridge. [2]
After graduation, she worked as a business journalist for two years, including a traineeship at EuroWeek magazine. She then joined the Liberal Democrats in their press team, becoming in 1997 press secretary and advisor to the party's leader Paddy Ashdown. [1]
After Ashdown stepped down as leader in August 1999, Green joined the BBC for a short time to work on On The Record with John Humphrys, then became a journalist and columnist at the Financial Times. Employed first on the home news desk, she was then deputy world news editor, then the paper's education correspondent, and finally political correspondent. [1] [3]
After giving birth to her first child in 2009, she has since been freelance, working for The Times , The Observer , The Sunday Times and Intelligent Life . She has also appeared as a pundit and commentator on The World Tonight (BBC Radio 4), Newshour (BBC World Service), The Politics Show , This Week (both on BBC One) and Newsnight (BBC Two), alongside appearances on BBC Radio 5 Live, LBC and BSkyB. [1]
Green was editor at The Day , a news website for schoolchildren, founded at the beginning of 2011 by Richard Addis. [4]
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