Emma Tucker
Born (1966-10-24) 24 October 1966 (age 57)
London, England
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Executive editor, The Wall Street Journal
Children3

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.[1] She was previously the editor of The Sunday Times, [2] and a deputy editor of The Times.

Early life and education

Tucker was born on 24 October 1966 in London, England, the daughter of Nicholas Tucker and Jacqueline Anthony.[3] She attended Wallands School and Priory School in Lewes, East Sussex.[4] 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 Montezuma, New Mexico, US. She won a scholarship, and attended the school from the age of 16 in 1983 until 1985.[5][6] 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".[5] She then read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford.[5]

Career

In 1990, Tucker became a graduate trainee at the Financial Times (FT).[5][7] 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".[5]

Tucker was posted to Brussels from 1994 to 2000, where she covered the European Union in her first foreign correspondent job.[5][8] 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 FT, and moved to features.[5] She became editor of FT Weekend.[8]

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.[8] In October 2013 she was appointed deputy editor, under editor John Witherow, succeeding Keith Blackmore who had stood down that August.[8][9]

At the end of January 2020,[10] Tucker became the first female editor of The Sunday Times since Rachel Beer in 1901.[2][11] During Tucker's tenure as editor, the newspaper reported on controversies regarding COVID-19 contracts.[5]

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.[1][12]

Personal life

Tucker has three sons, including one born in February 2001.[5][13] 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.[3][5]

She lives on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b Chmielewski, Dawn; Coster, Helen (12 December 2022). "Emma Tucker named next editor-in-chief of Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires". Reuters. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Sweney, Mark (24 January 2020). "Emma Tucker becomes first female Sunday Times editor since 1901". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Tucker, Emma Jane, (born 24 Oct. 1966), Editor, The Sunday Times, since 2020". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U294337. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  4. ^ Rothery, Joanne (20 April 2019). "Challenging Times". Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Johnson, Rachel (10 January 2022). "32 - Emma Tucker". Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women (Podcast). LBC. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Media Masters Podcast Interview With Emma Tucker" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  7. ^ Halliday, Josh (18 October 2013). "Times deputy editor hails 'phenomenal' rise of women in newspapers". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d Blanchard, Paul (9 August 2018). "Emma Tucker - Editor, The Sunday Times". Media Masters (Podcast). Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Times editorial director Emma Tucker is made deputy editor". Press Gazette. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  10. ^ Brûlé, Tyler (8 July 2020). "Emma Tucker". The Chiefs Podcast (Podcast). Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  11. ^ "The Sunday Times appoints its first female editor since 1901". Headline Bulletin. 5 January 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  12. ^ Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg; Alexandra Bruell (12 December 2022). "Emma Tucker Is Named New Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Succeeding Matt Murray". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Wikidata Q115688997. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  13. ^ "MY HOME LIFE: EMMA TUCKER". The Royal Exchange. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  14. ^ Emma Tucker's Deadline, 7 April 2023
Media offices Preceded byKeith Blackmore Deputy Editor of The Times 2013–2020 Succeeded byTony Gallagher Preceded byMartin Ivens Editor of The Sunday Times 2020–present Incumbent
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