Jim Waterson | |
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Born | James Waterson March 1989 (age 35) York, England |
Partner | Jess Brammar (2017–present) |
Children | 1 |
James Waterson (born March 1989) is an English journalist who is the media editor of The Guardian and was previously political editor of BuzzFeed UK.[1]
Waterson was born in York.[2] He attended Oundle School, leaving in 2007.[3] He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford in 2011, with a degree in History.[4] He represented the college on the 2009–10 series of University Challenge.[5]
Waterson interned at Guido Fawkes, The Independent, and The Observer before landing his first job covering politics and business on City A.M.[6][7][8] While at City A.M. he fried an egg on a street using reflected heat from the 20 Fenchurch Street skyscraper.[9]
He was BuzzFeed News' UK political editor from 2013, before joining The Guardian in 2018.[10][11]
He has presented Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4,[12] and appeared on Moral Maze in February 2017.[13]
Waterson has been in a relationship with journalist Jess Brammar since 2017. Brammar has been the editor of BBC News and BBC World News since 2021.[14][15][16] The couple have one son born in 2020.[17]