Gaby Hinsliff

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Gabrielle Seal Hinsliff (born 4 July 1971[1][2]) is an English journalist.[3]

Early life and career[]

She is one of the daughters of the actor Geoff Hinsliff. She attended a girls' school and 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. ^ Jump up to: 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. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Gaby Hinsliff". Specialist Speakers. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Garside, Juliette (17 March 2000). "Lusher Will Edit Guardian Guide". PR Week. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  6. ^ Jump up to: 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. (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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