Emma Tucker
Emma Tucker | |
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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]
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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]
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Preceded by
Keith Blackmore
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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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