Jenny Naomi Kleeman is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. She has reported for

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's foreign affairs series ''

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'' and

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's ''Panorama'', and was a launch presenter on

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. She regularly writes for ''The Guardian'' and ''The Sunday Times Magazine''.

Education

Kleeman was educated at

Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

, a boarding and day independent school in Central London, followed by

Queens' College Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

, Cambridge, where she was awarded a double-first Bachelor of Arts in Social and Political Sciences, on 29 June 2001.

Life and career

Kleeman began working at ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'' newspaper after a few weeks' work experience. She has reported for HBO's '' Vice News Tonight'', Channel 4's '' Dispatches'', ''

The One Show ''The One Show'' is a British television magazine and chat show programme. Broadcast live on BBC One weeknights at 7:00 pm, it features topical stories and studio guests. It is currently co-hosted by Alex Jones, Jermaine Jenas, and Ronan K ...

'' on BBC One among others, as well as making 13 films for ''

''. She was nominated for the Amnesty International Gaby Rado memorial award for her work on ''Unreported World''. She has said that she admires the documentaries of

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and Paul Foot. Since June 2015, Kleeman has contributed short documentaries to ''The Guardians video output. Her projects so far have included work on revenge porn,

indigenous communities Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

sex robots
and British children born with

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. Kleeman is a regular on Sky News' ''Press Preview''. She co-presented the Friday to Sunday breakfast show on

which launched in June 2020, alongside Luke Jones. They left in May 2022, and were replaced by

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and Calum Macdonald.

Works

In 2020, Kleeman's first book, ''Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death'', was published.

References

External links

Official WebsiteGuardian Page
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