Jess Brammar

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Jess Brammar
Born
Jessica Mary M. Brammar [1]

1982
NationalityBritish
Alma mater London School of Economics
OccupationJournalist
Employers
Partner Jim Waterson (2017–present)
Children1

Jessica Mary M. Brammar (born 1982) [1] is a British journalist who has been the editor of the BBC's television news channels BBC News and BBC World News since 2021.

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Career

Brammar attended St Katherine's School in Abbots Leigh near Bristol. She originally wanted to become a nurse but did not have the required exam grades and spent two years working in data entry at Norwich Union. [2] She later studied History and Russian at the London School of Economics where she worked on the student newspaper. [3]

Brammar spent five years as a researcher on Question Time before joining ITN. She later became deputy editor of Newsnight , where she won Royal Television Society awards for her journalism. [2] [4]

In 2018, Brammar was appointed Head of News at HuffPost UK . She was made executive editor in March 2019, and in February 2020 was appointed editor-in-chief. She stepped down from the post in April 2021, after BuzzFeed made editorial cutbacks to HuffPost UK. [5]

In July 2021, it was reported that Brammar was front-runner to be BBC executive news editor, but that the non-executive BBC director Robbie Gibb had attempted to block her appointment. Gibb, a former communications director to Theresa May's Conservative government, texted the BBC director for news and current affairs, Fran Unsworth, to say that the BBC "cannot make this appointment", threatening that if it went ahead the government's "fragile trust in the BBC will be shattered". [4]

After Brammar deleted hundreds of her tweets, The Telegraph recovered tweets in which she was reported to have been "poking fun at Mr Johnson". [6]

On 15 September 2021, she was appointed Executive Editor of the BBC News Channel. [7]

Personal life

Brammar has been in a relationship with journalist Jim Waterson since 2017. [8] [9] Waterson has been the media editor of The Guardian since 2018. [10] They have one child. [11]

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  3. ↑ Tradingaswdr (9 September 2021). "trading as wdr: Awaiting first par". trading as wdr. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 Barker, Alex; Bond, David; Parker, George (9 July 2021). "BBC director sought to block senior editorial appointment". Financial Times . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Mayhew, Freddy (15 April 2021). "Jess Brammar quits as editor-in-chief of Huffpost UK". Press Gazette . Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Bodkin, Henry; Malnick, Edward (10 July 2021). "BBC considers left-wing, anti-Brexit journalist for top news job". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Jess Brammar gets senior BBC job after impartiality row". BBC News. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  8. ↑ Dickson, Annabelle (6 September 2017). "Westminster's power couples". Politico. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  9. ↑ Simpson, Craig (21 October 2021). "Laura Kuenssberg 'in negotiations to step down as BBC political editor'". The Telegraph.
  10. ↑ Mayhew, Freddy (19 February 2018). "Buzzfeed's Jim Waterson appointed new Guardian media editor". Press Gazette.
  11. ↑ Brammar, Jess (31 August 2021). "'We May Have Been Alone, But Covid Mums Shared A Unique Experience, One Defined By The Depths Of Female Strength And Resilience'". Grazia.
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