Anne McElvoy
{{short description|British journalist}}
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Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist, contributing to The Economist, London Evening Standard, and the BBC.{{cite web|first=|date=September 2015|title=Anne McElvoy - Economist|url=https://mediadirectory.economist.com/people/anne-mcelvoy/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208152122/https://mediadirectory.economist.com/people/anne-mcelvoy/|archive-date=2020-12-08|access-date=2021-01-12|website=Media Directory|publisher=The Economist}}
Early life
McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham,{{Cite news|last=McElvoy|first=Anne|title=Grange Hill grows up|newspaper=The Sunday Times|date=22 January 2012 |language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/grange-hill-grows-up-85dj77v7dtv|access-date=2021-04-07|issn=0140-0460}} and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford.{{Cite web|title=Anne McElvoy|website=Wadham alumni|url=https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/alumni/m/anne-mcelvoy|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602122521/http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/alumni/m/anne-mcelvoy |archive-date=2 June 2017 }} While at Oxford University, she edited Cherwell, the student newspaper.{{Cite news|newspaper=The Spectator|date=16 February 2008|first=Anne|last=McElvoy|title=Britain just got Weller: meet the Jam Generation|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/britain-just-got-weller-meet-the-jam-generation|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129105459/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/britain-just-got-weller-meet-the-jam-generation |archive-date=29 January 2022 }} She spent a year at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship.{{Cite web|title=Anne McElvoy, Senior Editor, The Economist, UK|website=Reinventing Higher Education 2019|url=https://rhe2019.ie.edu/portfolio_page/anne-mcelvoy/|publisher=IE University|date=2019}}
Career
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She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, writing frequently about the dissolution of eastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995, she became deputy editor of The Spectator,{{Cite web|title=EdTech Europe 2014|url=https://events.bizzabo.com/EdTechEurope2014|access-date=2021-01-12|website=events.bizzabo.com|language=en|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20231002222952/https://events.bizzabo.com/EdTechEurope2014|archivedate=2 October 2023}} as well as being a columnist on its sister publication, The Daily Telegraph.
In 1997, McElvoy became associate editor of The Independent. In 2002 she moved to the Evening Standard as executive editor remaining until 2009, though she still contributes a weekly political column. In 2009 she joined The Economist. She wrote The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy, and is the co-author of Markus Wolf's best-selling memoir Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster.
=Broadcasting=
She has been a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3 late-night discussion programme since 2009, initially on Night Waves, and then its successor programme, Free Thinking. She has also appeared on BBC2's Newsnight Review, contributes to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze as well as presenting Across the Red Line, bringing two figures on opposing sides of a debate together with conflict resolution experts to listen to each other.{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 - Across the Red Line|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m2bj1|access-date=2021-06-30|website=BBC|language=en-GB}} She was the head of Economist Radio, and subsequently joined Politico as Executive Editor - Head of Audio in February 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/hires-journalist-anne-mcelvoy-executive-editor-head-of-audio|title=POLITICO to double down on audio in Europe, hires renowned journalist Anne McElvoy as Executive Editor – Head of Audio|website=Politico Europe|date=2 February 2023}}
Publications
- McElvoy, Anne (1992). The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy. Faber and Faber ({{ISBN|978-0571165919}})
- Wolf, Markus and McElvoy, Anne (1997). Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster. Jonathan Cape Ltd. ({{ISBN|978-0224044981}})
References
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External links
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- [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/anne-mcelvoy Guardian profile]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811230141/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/columnistarchive/Anne%20McElvoy-columnist-184-archive.do Evening Standard]
- [http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/anne_mcelvoy New Statesman]
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/7316853.stm Newsnight Review]
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zzplm What The Papers Say]
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Category:Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Category:People from County Durham