Gabrielle Seal Hinsliff (born 4 July 1971[1][2]) is an English journalist and columnist for The Guardian.[3]

Early life and career

She is one of the daughters of the actor Geoff Hinsliff. She attended Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree in English.[4]

After two years at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph from 1994 to 1996, Hinsliff joined the Daily Mail, where she was successively a news reporter and health reporter, before becoming a political reporter in 1997,[4] and finally chief political correspondent the following year. She joined The Observer in March 2000, initially in the same post, following Andy McSmith, who had joined The Daily Telegraph.[5] Hinsliff was the youngest political editor of a national newspaper when she was promoted in December 2004, this time succeeding Kamal Ahmed, who had been her immediate superior at The Observer since her original appointment.[4][5][6]

Although Hinsliff loved the job, she resigned in late September 2009 "to get a life", to move "out of London to write, think, do some projects I never had time for" and "to spend more time with her husband and son".[2][6]

Career since 2012

Hinsliff's book Half a Wife (Chatto & Windus) was published in 2012. Eleanor Mills in The Sunday Times wrote that it is elevated "from the normal middle-class whinge" by "the rigorous analysis she brings to the wider forces that have shaped modern family life and how they might be re-sliced so that families can live differently". Hinsliff, Mills writes, "calls for a non-gender-aligned sharing out of domestic tasks".[7]

Hinsliff spent a period at The Times until July 2014, before becoming a columnist on The Guardian the following September.[8]

In July 2012, she began as editor-at-large of Grazia magazine contributing interviews and columns.[9] Hinsliff contributes to BBC and Sky programmes.

Personal life

Hinsliff is married to James Clark, former director of news and press secretary to Des Browne, Defence Secretary in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.[10]

References

  1. ^ Companies House
  2. ^ a b Hinsliff, Gaby (1 November 2009). "'I had it all, but I didn't have a life'". The Observer. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Gaby Hinsliff – Biography". Curtis Browen. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Gaby Hinsliff". Specialist Speakers. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  5. ^ a b Garside, Juliette (17 March 2000). "Lusher Will Edit Guardian Guide". PR Week. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  6. ^ a b Busfield, Steve (29 September 2009). "Observer political editor Gaby Hinsliff resigns after five years in post". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  7. ^ Mills, Eleanor (8 January 2012). "Half a Wife by Gaby Hinsliff". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 17 February 2017.[dead link] (subscription required)
  8. ^ "Gaby Hinsliff to join Guardian as writer and columnist". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Grazia recruits Gaby Hinsliff". PPA. 2 July 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  10. ^ "In the Firing Line". The Herald. Glasgow. 14 April 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2017.

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