Camilla Long

Camilla Long
Born Camilla Elizabeth Long
November 28, 1978
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation Journalist
Parent(s) Richard Pelham Long
Roslyn Vera Britton

Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 28 November 1978)[1] is a British journalist with The Times and The Sunday Times.

Descended from the aristocratic Clinton family (Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785–1851) is an ancestor through her paternal grandmother),[2] she was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[3] In 2010 she was the 2009 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)".[4]

In 2013 she won the Hatchet Job of the Year award for a piece on Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation,[5] having been nominated the previous year.

In July 2013 Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic of The Sunday Times.[6]

In March 2015 Long drew local criticism for referring to Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted spleen at the eastern edge of England"[7]

In April 2015 Long appeared on an episode of BBC's Have I Got News for You in which she made comments about UKIP Leader Nigel Farage. Long was defending her article about South Thanet, the constituency that Farage is standing in. UKIP went on to complain to Kent police regarding the comments, however no action was taken. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  2. ↑ "Person Page – 35938". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges". Ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  4. ↑ Stephen Brook (24 March 2010). "Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "BBC News – Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review". Bbc.co.uk. 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  6. ↑ "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic", News UK, 1 July 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Sunday-Times-article-brands-Thanet-English/story-26249636-detail/story.html
  8. ↑ http://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-29/ukip-asks-police-to-investigate-the-bbc-over-have-i-got-news-for-you/

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