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Speaker: Rachel Johnson

Feb 11, 2011 Jenography Blog,speakers 1 Comment

We’re thrilled to announce that Rachel Johnson, editor of The Lady and one of our favourite writers, is coming to CyberMummy to talk about her writing – something she does extremely well.

Rachel Johnson has been in national newspapers since the age of 23, when, after leaving Oxford, she became the first female graduate trainee at The Financial Times. She spent five years covering the bond markets and the economy for the FT, one of which was on secondment to the Foreign Office’s policy planning staff.

Rachel then moved to the BBC to work as a senior broadcast journalist for the BBC Radio 4 Current Affairs programme, The World Tonight, before leaving the country to pursue a freelance career – initially as a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph from Washington D.C. and then the Financial Times from Brussels.

For the last 12 years, Rachel has written weekly columns for a number of national newspapers including most recently the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard as well as the Daily Telegraph, and for magazines including Esquire and Conde Nast’s Easy Living.

In September 2009, Rachel became editor of The Lady magazine, England’s longest running weekly magazine for women.  In the last year, she has overseen the magazine’s re-launch and re-design, and featured in a Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary about the magazine, entitled The Lady and the Revamp.

Rachel has also written four books, The Mummy Diaries (Penguin, 2004), Notting Hell (Penguin, 2006) and Shire Hell (Penguin 2008), and A Diary of The Lady (Fig Tree/Penguin 2010) – charting her first year as Editor.

Rachel is married and has three children. She divides her time between her homes in London and Exmoor.

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