Tanya Gold

Tanya Gold (born 1973) is a British journalist who has worked for a variety of newspapers in the United Kingdom, including "The Guardian", the "Daily Mail", and "The Independent".

She is best known for writing comic observational articles, [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/16/celebrity.culturaltrips] ] her work exploring her recovery from alcoholism, [citeweb |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jan/29/gender.world |date=January 2008 |title="As a recovering alcoholic" |author=Tanya Gold |published=The Guardian] and her undercover investigations into the television series "Big Brother" and the descendants of Nazis who converted to Judaism and moved to Israel. She also wrote a column about giving up smoking titled "The Quitter". Fact|date=October 2008

Gold was a student at Merton College, Oxford beginning in 1993. In October of 2008, she wrote an article, entitled "Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state-school kids - for its own good", criticising Merton and Oxford University, as well as its chancellor Chris Patten, for a culture she saw as privileged, stratified by socioeconomic status, and emotionally repressive. [citeweb |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/02/oxforduniversity |date=October 2008 |title="Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state-school kids - for its own good" |author=Tanya Gold |published=The Guardian]

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