Katharine Sophie Viner was born on January 1971 and is a British journalist and playwright.
17 Facts About Katharine Viner
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Katharine Viner became the first female editor-in-chief at The Guardian on 1 June 2015, succeeding Alan Rusbridger.
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Katharine Viner's grandfather, Vic Viner, was an able seaman involved in the Dunkirk evacuation.
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Around 1988, Katharine Viner had a period of work experience at the Ripon Gazette, her local newspaper.
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Just before her finals, Katharine Viner won a competition organised by The Guardian's women's page and was advised by Louise Chunn, then Guardian women's editor, to pursue a career in journalism.
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For work experience, Katharine Viner joined Cosmopolitan, a women's monthly magazine.
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Katharine Viner became features editor in 2006 and deputy editor in 2008 at the same time as Ian Katz.
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Katharine Viner edited the Saturday edition of The Guardian from 2008 to 2012.
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Several Guardian pieces by Katharine Viner published during this period are reprinted in an anthology drawn from the Guardian archive entitled Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism, edited by Kira Cochrane.
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In March 2015, Katharine Viner won a majority in the ballot of Guardian and Observer editorial staff as the favoured successor of Alan Rusbridger as The Guardians editor-in-chief.
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Katharine Viner was appointed editor-in-chief on 20 March 2015, the first woman to be the editor of The Guardian in its 194-year history, and assumed her new post on 1 June 2015.
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Wolff said Gibson aligned herself with Snowden, promising more of the same, while Katharine Viner "pitched decidedly against Gibson and, in a sense, against Snowden".
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Katharine Viner wanted renewed investment after better than feared financial results in 2020.
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Katharine Viner is known for My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play she co-edited with actor Alan Rickman from the writings and emails of Rachel Corrie, an American activist who was killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israeli Army in Rafah, Gaza in 2003.
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Katharine Viner was a judge in the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004 and was on the board of the Royal Court Theatre for 13 years.
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In 2002, Viner criticised the planned invasion of Iraq and wrote that George W Bush "bombed Afghanistan to liberate the women from their burkas, and sent out his wife Laura to tell how Afghans are tortured for wearing nail varnish".
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Katharine Viner married broadcaster, documentary maker and writer Adrian Chiles in 2022.