Emma Tucker
{{Short description|English journalist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Emma Tucker
| image = Emma Jane Tucker (born 1966) at World Economic Forum Davos 2024.png
| caption = Tucker in 2024
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|10|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| alma_mater = University College, Oxford
| occupation = Editor-in-chief, The Wall Street Journal
| children = 3
}}
Emma Jane Tucker (born 24 October 1966) is an English journalist and editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, where she is the first woman to lead the publication.{{Cite news |last1=Chmielewski |first1=Dawn |last2=Coster |first2=Helen |date=2022-12-12 |title=Emma Tucker named next editor-in-chief of Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/emma-tucker-named-next-editor-in-chief-wall-street-journal-dow-jones-newswires-2022-12-12/ |access-date=2022-12-12}} She was previously the editor of The Sunday Times, {{cite news|last=Sweney|first=Mark|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/24/emma-tucker-first-female-sunday-times-editor-since-1901|title=Emma Tucker becomes first female Sunday Times editor since 1901|work=The Guardian|date=24 January 2020|access-date=24 January 2020}} and a deputy editor of The Times.{{Cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |last2= |first2= |date=12 December 2022 |title=Sunday Times editor Emma Tucker to leave for Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/12/sunday-times-editor-emma-tucker-to-leave-wall-street-journal-edit |newspaper=The Guardian}}
Early life
Tucker was born on 24 October 1966 in London, England, the daughter of Nicholas Tucker and Jacqueline Anthony.{{Cite web |title=Tucker, Emma Jane, (born 24 Oct. 1966), Editor, The Sunday Times, since 2020 |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-294337 |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=Who's Who & Who Was Who |year=2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U294337|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }} She attended Wallands School and Priory School in Lewes, East Sussex.{{Cite web|url=https://www.townandcountymag.co.uk/challenging-times/|title=Challenging Times|last=Rothery|first=Joanne|date=20 April 2019|access-date=1 February 2021}} She applied for the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, and was invited for an interview, where she was offered an opportunity to study at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (UWC-USA) in San Miguel County, New Mexico, US. She won a scholarship, and attended the school from the age of 16 in 1983 until 1985.{{cite podcast |title=32 - Emma Tucker |url=https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrdYXy/ |work=Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women |publisher=LBC |last=Johnson |first=Rachel |date=10 January 2022 |access-date=31 March 2022 |archive-date=13 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213173034/https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrdYXy/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.mediamasters.fm/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Media-Masters_Emma-Tucker-Podcast-Transcript.pdf |title=Media Masters Podcast Interview With Emma Tucker |access-date=26 January 2020}} She later said "I was very homesick to begin with, but I had an incredible two years there. It was a complete change of pace, life, outlook, everything". She then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford.
Career
In 1990, Tucker became a graduate trainee at the Financial Times (FT).{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/18/times-deputy-editor-women-newspapers|title=Times deputy editor hails 'phenomenal' rise of women in newspapers|work=The Guardian|last=Halliday|first=Josh|date=18 October 2013|access-date=1 February 2021}} She worked in the House of Commons press gallery, and wrote the money markets column. She worked in the newspaper's economics room at the time of the ERM crisis. She later said, "they [the FT] were slightly baffled ... because they hadn't got many young women".
Tucker was posted to Brussels from 1994 to 2000, where she covered the European Union in her first foreign correspondent job.{{Cite podcast |url=https://www.mediamasters.fm/emma-tucker/ |title=Emma Tucker - Editor, The Sunday Times |work=Media Masters |date=9 August 2018 |access-date=1 February 2021 |last=Blanchard |first=Paul}} In January 2000 she moved to Berlin and was a foreign correspondent in Germany for three years. She applied to become property editor of the Financial Times , and moved to features. She became editor of Financial Times Weekend.
Tucker 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. In October 2013 she was appointed deputy editor, under editor John Witherow, succeeding Keith Blackmore who had stood down that August.{{Cite news |date=14 October 2013 |title=Times editorial director Emma Tucker is made deputy editor |work=Press Gazette |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-editorial-director-emma-tucker-is-made-deputy-editor/ |access-date=1 February 2021}}
At the end of January 2020,{{cite podcast |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/2lPgXNBWs6wzR4faui0ViM |title=Emma Tucker |work=The Chiefs Podcast |last=Brûlé |first=Tyler |date=8 July 2020 |access-date=31 March 2022}} Tucker became the first female editor of The Sunday Times since Rachel Beer in 1901.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-05 |title=The Sunday Times appoints its first female editor since 1901 |url=https://hbuk.co.uk/emma-tucker-times/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=Headline Bulletin |language=en-GB}} During Tucker's tenure as editor, the newspaper reported on controversies regarding COVID-19 contracts.
In December 2022, she was named the new editor of The Wall Street Journal, "the first woman to lead the 133-year-old business publication," replacing Matt Murray on February 1, 2023.{{Cite Q|Q115688997|access-date=2022-12-13}}
Personal life
Tucker has three sons, including one born in February 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/journal/my-home-life-emma-tucker/|title=My Home Life: Emma Tucker|work=The Royal Exchange|date=17 April 2020|access-date=1 February 2021|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417212021/http://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/journal/my-home-life-emma-tucker/|url-status=dead}} They lived in Lewes, East Sussex. Tucker divorced her first husband and moved to London. In 2008, she then married her second husband, Peter Andreas Howarth, who already had three sons.
She lives on the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.{{citation |title=Emma Tucker's Deadline |date=7 April 2023 |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/wall-street-journal-emma-tucker-russia-evan-gershkovich.html }}
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Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford
Category:Financial Times people
Category:Journalists from London
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