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Jessica Mary M. Brammar (born 1982) is a British journalist who has been the editor of the BBC's television news channels
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and
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since 2021.


Career

Brammar attended St Katherine's School in
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near Bristol. She originally wanted to become a nurse but did not have the required exam grades and spent two years working in data entry at
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. She later studied History and Russian at the
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where she worked on the student newspaper. Brammar spent five years as a researcher on ''
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'' before joining ITN. She later became deputy editor of ''
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'', where she won
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awards for her journalism. In 2018, Brammar was appointed Head of News at ''
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''. She was made executive editor in March 2019, and in February 2020 was appointed editor-in-chief. She stepped down from the post in April 2021, after
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made editorial cutbacks to ''HuffPost UK''. In July 2021, it was reported that Brammar was front-runner to be
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executive news editor, but that the non-executive BBC director
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had attempted to block her appointment. Gibb, a former communications director to
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's
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government, texted the BBC director for news and current affairs,
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, to say that the BBC "cannot make this appointment", threatening that if it went ahead the government's "fragile trust in the BBC will be shattered". After Brammar deleted hundreds of her tweets, ''
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'' recovered tweets in which she was reported to have been "poking fun at Mr Johnson". On 15 September 2021, she was appointed
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of the
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.


Personal life

Brammar has been in a relationship with journalist
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since 2017. Waterson has been the media editor of ''
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'' since 2018. They have one child.


References

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