Camilla Wright

{{Short description|British journalist}}

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{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Camilla Wright

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|12|04|df=y}}

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| occupation = Media owner/consultant

| credits = Popbitch

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Camilla Wright (born 4 December 1970){{citation needed|date=January 2012}} is a British journalist and one of the founders (with then boyfriend Neil Stevenson) and owners of the Popbitch newsletter and website.{{cite news |last=Aikenhead |first=Decca |title=Hot Gossip |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/06/newmedia.comment |accessdate=24 December 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian |quote=Decca Aitkenhead goes head-to-head with the queen bee of Popbitch |date=6 August 2006}} In 2008 she published a book, Popbitch: Celebrity Excess And Other Monkey Business.{{cite news |last=Eyre |first=Hermione |title=Close-up: Camilla Wright |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-camilla-wright-963930.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617042347/http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-camilla-wright-963930.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 June 2012 |accessdate=24 December 2011 |newspaper=The Independent (website) |date=19 October 2008}}

She graduated with a degree in PPE from Oriel College, Oxford in 1992. Before starting university and Popbitch her first job was as a bar promoter in Tenerife. In January 2007 she appeared in the Radio 4 Great Lives series, nominating American war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.{{cite web |title=Martha Gellhorn |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gj685 |work=BBC: Great Lives |accessdate=24 December 2011}} In 2011, Wright appeared to give evidence for the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press.{{cite web |title=Witness Statement of Camilla Wright | work=Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press |url=http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Witness-Statement-of-Camilla-Wright.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140122165629/http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Witness-Statement-of-Camilla-Wright.pdf |url-status=unfit |archive-date=2014-01-22 }} On Monday 21 December 2015, Wright represented Oriel College on the BBC television show Christmas University Challenge.{{cite web |title=BBC Media Centres |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/xmas15/bbctwo}}