Emma Tucker

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Emma Tucker
Born 1966 or 1967 (age 56–57)
Education Priory School, Lewes
Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
Alma mater University of Oxford
Occupation Journalist
Employer The Sunday Times

Emma Tucker (born 1966 or 1967)[1] is an English journalist. She is the editor of The Sunday Times, having succeeded Martin Ivens in January 2020.[2] She is a former deputy editor of The Times.[3]

Early life

Tucker attended Wallands School and Priory School in Lewes,[4] East Sussex, and won a scholarship[3] to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, New Mexico, US, which she attended from 1983 to 1985.[5] She then earned a degree in PPE at Oxford University.[6]

Career

Tucker began her career as a reporter at the Financial Times[3] in 1990.[7] She then covered the EU in Brussels for several years before becoming editor of FT Weekend. She joined The Times in 2007 as associate features editor and a year later became editor of times2. In 2012 she became The Times' editorial director.[3] In October 2013[1] she was appointed deputy editor, under editor John Witherow,[3] succeeding Keith Blackmore who had stood down that August.[1] In January 2020 she became the first female editor of The Sunday Times since Rachel Beer in 1901.[2]

Personal life

Tucker lives in Herne Hill, South London. She is married, with three sons and three stepsons.[8]

References

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Preceded by
Keith Blackmore
Deputy Editor of The Times
2013–2020
Succeeded by
Tony Gallagher
Preceded by Editor of The Sunday Times
2020–present
Incumbent


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