Jeff Randall (journalist)

Infobox journalist
name = Jeff Randall


caption =
birthname = Jeff Randall
birth_date = birth date and age|1954|10|3|df=yes
birth_place =
occupation = Journalist, Presenter
spouse =
ethnic =
credits = The Sunday Times, BBC, Daily Telegraph

Jeff William Randall (born 3 October 1954) is a business journalist, formerly the business editor of BBC News and, from 2005, editor-at-large of the "Daily Telegraph".

Randall was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford, London Borough of Havering and the University of Nottingham, graduating with a degree in economics. He did a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Florida.

Randall worked as Assistant Editor of "Financial Weekly", then between 1986 and 1988 as City correspondent for the "Sunday Telegraph". From 1989 to 1994 he was City editor of "The Sunday Times", becoming City and Business Editor 1994-95, as well as a Director of Times Newspapers. He was also a director of a City PR firm. He then became assistant editor and sports editor of the "Sunday Times".

Randall became the editor of the re-launched "Sunday Business" newspaper in 1998, before moving to the BBC in 2001 as the corporation's first business editor. He appeared regularly on the "Ten O'clock News", the Today programme and BBC News 24. He resigned as BBC business editor in late 2005 to join the "Daily Telegraph" as 'editor-at-large'.

He was replaced as BBC business editor by Robert Peston, formerly associate editor at the "Telegraph". Randall continues to work on BBC projects, including a documentary series on the City and financial turmoil for Radio Four. In addition, he makes television documentaries for ITV, and is the presenter of Jeff Randall Live on Sky News.

His awards for journalism include the Harold Wincott prize for Best Business Broadcaster in 2004, the London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year in 2000 and the FT Analysis Financial Journalist of the Year in 1991.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates of letters by Anglia Ruskin University (2001) and the University of Nottingham (2006).

He is a supporter of the Glasgow football club, Rangers, which he describes as "the quintessential British club". His other interests are horseracing and golf. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/presenters/randall_biog.shtml]

Rangers fans recently displayed a banner partly inspired by this comment in tribute to the Act of union in a game against Happoel Tel Aviv in February 2007.

In August 2007, he launched a blistering attack in the Daily Telegraph on the Labour government, claiming that "the United Kingdom's authority as a sovereign nation has been greatly eroded, our democratic traditions trashed, and the make-up of our society put through the mangle of enforced multiculturalism - all without anything so vulgar as a plebiscite. Like geese being prepared for the production of foie gras, we are having stuffed down our throats that which we do not wish to swallow: the rough corn of Labour's determination to make its changes irreversible. If we dare to complain, we're told that it's good for us." [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/24/do2402.xml]

External links

* [http://www.skypressoffice.co.uk/SkyNews/AboutUs/biography.asp?id=168 Sky News profile]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?menuId=242&menuItemId=8847&view=COLUMNIST&grid=F4&targetRule=5 Jeff Randall] 's Telegraph Column
*