Robert Peston

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Peston
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1960(1960-04-25)
Age	64
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Robert Peston Biography

Robert Peston is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on April 25, 1960 in England, United Kingdom. An English journalist who was both the Business Editor and Economics editor of BBC News.

He was involved in a heated argument with In 2009, he became involved in a publicized argument with publishing executive James Murdoch. , a publishing executive.

Peston briefly worked as a stockbroker at Williams de Broë, becoming a journalist in 1983 at the Investors Chronicle and joining The Independent newspaper on its launch in 1986. From 1989 to 1990, Peston worked for the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper as Deputy City Editor, before being appointed City Editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1990.

From 1991 to 2000, he worked for the Financial Times. At the FT, he was – at various times – Political Editor, Banking Editor and head of an investigations unit (which he founded). During his time as Political Editor, he memorably fell out with the then Downing Street Press Secretary Alastair Campbell, who regularly mimicked Peston’s habit of flicking back his hair, and once responded to a difficult question with the words: “Another question from the Peston school of smartarse journalism.” He became close friends with fellow journalist, now PR man, Roland Rudd, where the two were known as the “Pest and the Rat”. His last position at the FT was Financial Editor (in charge of business and financial coverage).

In 2012, his wife Sian Busby, a writer, succumbed to lung cancer. Peston was left to care for Maximillian, the son of the couple.

Robert Peston Net Worth

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

He was a graduate of both the Balliol College in Oxford and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

His coverage of the Northern Rock bank crisis in England earned him several journalistic awards.

Robert James Kenneth Peston (born 25 April 1960) is a British journalist, presenter, and founder of the education charity Speakers for Schools. He is the Political Editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston (previously Peston on Sunday). From February 2006 until March 2014, he was the Business Editor for BBC News and Economics Editor from March 2014 to November 2015. He became known to a wider public with his reporting of the late-2000s financial crisis, especially with his scoop on the Northern Rock crisis.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Robert Peston Dating?

According to our records, Robert Peston married to Siân Busby. As of December 1, 2023, Robert Peston’s is not dating anyone.

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In late 2005, it was announced that Peston would succeed Jeff Randall as BBC Business Editor, responsible for business and City coverage on the corporation’s flagship TV and radio news programmes, the BBC News Channel, its website and on Radio 4’s Today.

Facts & Trivia

Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Robert Peston celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.

In February 2008, Hodder & Stoughton published Peston’s book Who Runs Britain? How the Super-Rich are Changing our Lives. In The Guardian, Polly Toynbee said of it: “Reading Peston’s book, you can only be flabbergasted all over again at how Labour kowtowed to wealth, glorified the City and put all the nation’s economic eggs into one dangerous basket of fizzy finance.”

Where is peston now?

In September 2018, Peston said he felt guilty after falling in love with another woman several years after his wife’s death, and revealed that he was now in a relationship with Evening Standard diary editor Charlotte Edwardes. Peston lives in the Muswell Hill area of London.

Who is Robert Preston's wife?

Siân Busby

How old is peston ITV?

62 years (April 25, 1960)

Who is Robert Peston's father?

Maurice Peston, Baron Peston

Is Peston married again?

Siân Busby