Jeff Randall (journalist)
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Jeff William Randall (born October 3, 1954) is a business journalist, formerly the business editor of BBC News and from 2005 editor-at-large of the Daily Telegraph.
Randall was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford, United Kingdom and the University of Nottingham. He did a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Florida.
Randall worked as Assistant Editor of Financial Weekly, then between 1986 and 1988 as City correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph. From 1989 to 1994 he was City editor of The Sunday Times, becoming City and Business Editor 1994-95, as well as a Director of Times Newspapers. He was also a director of a City PR firm. He then became assistant editor and sports editor of the Sunday Times.
Randall became the first editor of Sunday Business newspaper in 1998, before moving to the BBC in 2001 as the corporation's first business editor. He appeared regularly on the Ten O'clock News, the Today programme and BBC News 24. He resigned as BBC business editor in late 2005 to join the Daily Telegraph as 'editor-at-large'. He was replaced as BBC business editor by Robert Peston, formerly associate editor at the Telegraph. Randall continues to work on BBC projects, including presenting Weekend Business on BBC Radio Five Live and television documentaries for the Money Programme.
His awards for journalism include the Harold Wincott prize for Best Business Broadcaster in 2004, the London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award in 2000 and the FT Analysis' Financial Journalist of the Year award in 1991.
In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Nottingham.
He is an avid supporter of the Glasgow football club, Rangers, which he describes as "the quintessential British club". His other interests are horseracing and golf.[1]
Rangers fans recently displayed a banner partly inspired by this comment in tribute to the Act of union in a game against Happoel Tel Aviv in February 2007.
