Speakers

Jane Martinson

Writer & Broadcaster

Jane is the Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism in the Department of Journalism at City University, London.

She read English at Cambridge University before gaining a postgraduate qualification in newspaper journalism at City University. She worked briefly on a local newspaper before joining the Financial Times, where she wrote about companies, markets, natural resources and corporate governance.

She joined The Guardian as the US business correspondent based in New York, covering the early dot com boom and Wall Street as well as politics and the environment. She spent 18 years as a member of the award-winning senior editorial leadership team at The Guardian. Her career included stints as city news editor and several years writing her own weekly interview slot before becoming media editor, head of media, and subsequently associate editor. She was also women’s editor for many years and is still a Guardian columnist. Her specialisms are the media, business, finance and women’s issues and her writing has earned Jane numerous award nominations this year.

As a former chair of Women in Journalism (WiJ), Jane was responsible for ground-breaking research on the way women are portrayed in the media. She is a former Women in Sport board member and remains a committee member of WiJ.