Jenni Cecily Russell (born 16 July 1960) is a British

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and broadcaster. She is a columnist for ''

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'', a contributing writer for ''

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'', and a book reviewer for ''

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''. She has been a columnist for ''

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'' and written the political column for ''

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''. She worked for many years at the BBC and ITN, latterly as editor of ''

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'' on

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

Career

Russell studied history at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and went on to become a BBC News trainee. She worked for the BBC, as well as ITN and

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. In 1998 she became joint editor of

's ''

''. On leaving the BBC, Russell began writing comment pieces for ''

'' and the ''

New Statesman The ''New Statesman'' is a British Political magazine, political and cultural magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney Webb, Sidney and Beatrice ...

'', before beginning to write regularly for ''

'', for whom she also reviews books. She 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. In May 2011 she won the

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for Political Journalism, having been shortlisted for the Commentariat of the Year at the 2010 Comment Awards. She was described as "the stand-out journalist in an outstanding field". The judges commented: She wrote the Monday political column for the ''

'' for two years, from 2011 to 2013, and was shortlisted for the inaugural

Hatchet Job of the Year Hatchet Job of the Year was a British journalism award given annually from 2012 to 2014 to "the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months". It was awarded by '' The Omnivore'', a review aggregator websi ...

Award in 2012 for her work on as a book reviewer in ''

''. In 2013, she became a member of the independent expert panel advising the Government on the initiation and publication of Serious Case Reviews, and in August that year began writing a column on Thursdays for ''

''. At the 2015 Comment Awards she was named Society & Diversity Commentator of the Year. In 2017, Russell started writing for the ''

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'' as a contributing opinion writer. In 2020, she was long-listed for the Orwell Prize. Russell regularly appears on television and radio, on

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