Jess Brammar

Jess Brammar is a British journalist.

Jess Brammar
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist

Life

Brammar worked for ITN before becoming deputy editor of Newsnight, where she won Royal Television Society awards.[1]

In 2018, Brammar was appointed Head of News at HuffPost UK. She was made executive editor in March 2019, and in February 2020 was appointed editor-in-chief. She stepped down from the post in April 2021, after BuzzFeed made editorial cutbacks to HuffPost UK.[2]

In July 2021, it was reported that Brammar was front-runner to be BBC executive news editor, but that the non-executive BBC director Robbie Gibb had attempted to block her appointment. Gibb, a former communications director to Theresa May's Conservative government, texted the BBC director for news and current affairs, Fran Unsworth, to say that the BBC "cannot make this appointment", threatening that if it went ahead the government's "fragile trust in the BBC will be shattered".[1] After Brammar deleted hundreds of her tweets, The Telegraph recovered tweets in which she was reported to have been "poking fun at Mr Johnson".[3] On September 15, 2021, she was appointed Executive Editor of the BBC News Channel.[4]

Brammar was reported as being in a relationship with the journalist Jim Waterson in 2017.[5]

References
  1. Barker, Alex; Bond, David; Parker, George (9 July 2021). "BBC director sought to block senior editorial appointment". Financial Times. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. Mayhew, Freddy (15 April 2021). "Jess Brammar quits as editor-in-chief of Huffpost UK". Press Gazette. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  3. Bodkin, Henry; Malnick, Edward (10 July 2021). "BBC considers left-wing, anti-Brexit journalist for top news job". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  4. "Jess Brammar gets senior BBC job after impartiality row". BBC News. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  5. Dickson, Annabelle (6 September 2017). "Westminster's power couples". Politico. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
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