Janice Turner was born on 8 April 1964 and is a British journalist, and a columnist and feature writer for The Times.
13 Facts About Janice Turner
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Janice Turner went to Ridgewood School in the north of Doncaster.
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Janice Turner attended the University of Sussex, where she spent a year as an elected Student Union Officer and edited the Unionews magazine.
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Janice Turner left to write occasional columns for The Guardian and wrote a column about magazines for the Press Gazette.
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Janice Turner won Interviewer of the Year in the 2014 and 2019 British Press Awards.
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Janice Turner was shortlisted for best columnist in 2005,2007, and 2008,2016,2017,2018 and 2019.
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Janice Turner was shortlisted for best interviewer in 2006 and 2017.
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Janice Turner won Comment Journalist of the Year at the 2018 British Journalism Awards.
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In 2016, Janice Turner won the award "A Woman's Voice" in the Editorial Intelligence awards which she declined with the following statement:.
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Janice Turner has been criticised for her writing about transgender people.
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The Times defended Janice Turner, writing that "Concerns of biological women must not be silenced".
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In 2019, Janice Turner tweeted that trans model and activist Munroe Bergdorf was unfit to be an ambassador for Childline because Bergdorf was a "porn model" who had posed for Playboy.
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Janice Turner married Ben Preston, executive editor of The Sunday Times, a former editor of the Radio Times, and a former deputy editor of The Times, and the son of Peter Preston, in 1995.