Jackie Ashley

Jackie Ashley (born September 10, 1954), is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Ashley is the daughter of Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, the Life Peer and former Labour MP. She was educated at Rosebery Grammar School, Epsom, Surrey and St Anne's College, Oxford where she studied PPE and was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.

Since then, she has been a television news reporter and newspaper journalist, writing for the "New Statesman" (where she was attacked in print by Cristina Odone) and "The Guardian". She specializes in the Labour Party, the media, politics, public services, trade unions and women's issues. She is broadly a supporter of Gordon Brown's government, though she has recently called for his replacement.

Jackie Ashley is married to fellow journalist Andrew Marr; they live in west London and have three children.

Career

* 1979–1981 — BBC trainee
* 1981–1984 — Producer and newsreader on "Newsnight"
* 1984–1986 — Reporter on TV-am, producer and reporter on Channel 4
* 1986–1999 — Political correspondent with ITN
* 2000–2002 — Political editor, "New Statesman"
* 2002–present — Columnist and political interviewer, "The Guardian"

External links

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardiancontacts/page/0,7024,1222080,00.html Guardian contact information]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qt=%22Jackie+Ashley%22 Find article by Jackie Ashley] — New Statesman articles
* [http://www.byliner.com/writer/?id=5426 Jackie Ashley (Byliner: Writers)] — Guardian articles