11 Facts About Jenni Russell

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Jenni Russell is a columnist for The Times, a contributing writer for The New York Times, and a book reviewer for The Sunday Times.

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Jenni Russell has been a columnist for The Guardian and written the political column for London Evening Standard.

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Jenni Russell worked for many years at the BBC and ITN, latterly as editor of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

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Jenni Russell is married to Stephen Lambert, a media executive, and lives in London.

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Jenni Russell worked for the BBC, as well as ITN and Channel 4 News.

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On leaving the BBC, Jenni Russell began writing comment pieces for The Guardian and the New Statesman, before beginning to write regularly for The Sunday Times, for whom she reviews books.

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Jenni Russell has been a vocal critic of the failings of the education system and criticised the increasing abuse of civil liberties under the last Labour government.

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Jenni Russell was described as "the stand-out journalist in an outstanding field".

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Jenni Russell wrote the Monday political column for the London Evening Standard for two years, from 2011 to 2013, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year Award in 2012 for her work on as a book reviewer in The Sunday Times.

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In 2017, Jenni Russell started writing for the New York Times as a contributing opinion writer.

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Jenni Russell regularly appears on television and radio, on BBC's Newsnight and Sky News.