Katharine Viner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katharine Viner
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1971(1971-01-04)
Age	53
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Katharine Viner Biography

Katharine Viner is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 4, 1971 in England, United Kingdom. English writer, who is renowned for her work as a playwright as well as journalist. She also set a precedent by becoming the first female Editor-in-Chief at The Guardian. She is also famous for her role in co-writing the popular comedy My Names is English writer who is known for her work both as a playwright and as a journalist. She also made history when she became the first female Editor- In-Chief of The Guardian. She is also known for having co-written the popular play My Names is Rachel Corrie..

She is famous for writing her production My Name is Rachel Corrie along with editor and playwright She is known for having written the play My Name is Rachel Corrie alongside fellow playwright and editor Alan Rickman. The play is based around the emails of Rachel Corrie and was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2005.. It is set on email correspondence of Rachel Corrie and premiered in The Royal Court Theatre in 2005.

For work experience, Viner joined Cosmopolitan, a women’s monthly magazine. The magazine retained her afterwards and she became features assistant, then news and careers editor; earlier, she had won another student competition involving a submission to the magazine. After three years at The Sunday Times, working as a commissioning editor and writer for its magazine. Viner joined The Guardian in 1997. Following a period on the staff of the women’s page, she became editor of the Saturday Weekend supplement in 1998. She became features editor in 2006 and deputy editor in 2008 at the same time as Ian Katz. Viner edited the Saturday edition of The Guardian from 2008 to 2012.

In 2002, Viner criticised the planned invasion of Iraq and wrote that George W. Bush “bombed Afghanistan to liberate the women from their burkas (or, as he would have it, to free the “women of cover”), and sent out his wife Laura to tell how Afghans are tortured for wearing nail varnish”.

She was raised and born within Yorkshire, England.

Katharine Viner Net Worth

Katharine Viner is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katharine Viner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her first article was published within The Guardian in 1987 while she was still at school in Pembroke College, Oxford where she talked about The GCE I level examinations and the soon-to-be replacement, that would replace the General Certificate of Secondary Education. She soon began writing additional pieces and was eventually taken on by Cosmopolitan.

Her other accomplishments include serving as an judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004 before being named to the Board of directors of the Royal Court Theatre.

Raised in Yorkshire, Viner is the daughter of teachers. Her grandfather, Vic Viner, was an able seaman involved in the Dunkirk evacuation. Viner was educated at Ripon Grammar School, where she was head girl. As a teenager, she joined Youth CND and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, although the nearest groups were 25 miles away, and read Spare Rib. Her first newspaper article, published in The Guardian in 1987 while she was still at school, was on the ending of the GCE O level examinations, which were being replaced in the UK by the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). “Cramming five years of knowledge into two and a half hours does not seem to be a fair system”, she wrote. Around 1988, Viner had a period of work experience at the Ripon Gazette, her local newspaper.

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Viner delivered the AN Smith Lecture in Journalism at the University of Melbourne in October 2013. D. D. Guttenplan, London correspondent of the American Nation magazine, wrote in March 2015 that “there is no one on either side of the [Atlantic] ocean who has thought as deeply as Viner about the relationship between readers, technology and the future of journalism.” Guttenplan is not totally convinced by Viner’s “eagerness to transcend print” in the move to digital media, but commenting about her 2013 speech in Australia, he writes that “her arguments for the importance of reader engagement, and for sustained, original reporting of information that someone, somewhere, wants to keep secret are compelling and convincing.”

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Katharine Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Katharine Viner celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.

In the summer of 2014, Viner moved to New York City and became the new head of The Guardian’ s American website in succession to Janine Gibson while remaining deputy editor of Guardian News & Media. While based in New York, Viner expanded GuardianUS’ s coverage from a limited range of subjects, into areas like the arts and sport and increased staffing.

Who is Katharine Viner married to?

Katharine Viner
Alma mater| Pembroke College, Oxford
Occupation| Journalist
Notable credit| Editor-in-chief of The Guardian
Partner| Adrian Chiles (2019–present)

Who is the chief editor of the Guardian newspaper?

Katharine Viner is editor-in-chief of the Guardian, a position she has held since June 2015. She joined the Guardian as a writer in 1997. She was appointed deputy editor of the Guardian in 2008; launched the award-winning Guardian Australia in 2013; and was also editor of Guardian US, based in New York.

Who owns the Guardian News?

Our Organisation. The Guardian is owned by Guardian Media Group , which has only one shareholder – the Scott Trust. The Scott Trust, named after our longest serving editor, CP Scott, exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.

Who is the editor at the Guardian?

Guardian News and Media today announces the appointment of Betsy Reed as new editor of Guardian US. Betsy joins the Guardian from The Intercept, where she has been editor-in-chief since 2015.

How much does the editor of The Guardian earn?

The editor-in-chief of The Guardian was handed a £150,000 pay rise as its publisher’s finances improved in the wake of the Covid crisis. Katharine Viner’s salary rose by 42pc to £509,850 in the year to April after the newspaper’s parent company, Guardian Media Group (GMG), hailed its best results since 2008.