Jackie Ashley

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The Hon. Jackie Ashley (born September 10, 1954), is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Ashley is the daughter of Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, the Life Peer and former Labour MP. She was educated at Rosebery Grammar School, Epsom, Surrey and St Anne's College, Oxford where she studied PPE and was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.

Since then, she has been a television news reporter and newspaper journalist, writing for the New Statesman (where she was violently attacked by Cristina Odone) and The Guardian. She specializes in the Labour Party, the media, politics, public services, trade unions and women's issues.

She is broadly a supporter of Gordon Brown's government, with some criticisms.

Ashley is married to fellow journalist Andrew Marr, lives in west London, and has three children.

[edit] Career

  • 1979–1981 — BBC trainee
  • 1981–1984 — Producer and newsreader on Newsnight
  • 1984–1986 — Reporter on TV-am, producer and reporter on Channel 4
  • 1986–1999 — Political correspondent with ITN
  • 2000–2002 — Political editor, New Statesman
  • 2002–present — Columnist and political interviewer, The Guardian

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