Emma Barnett

Journalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett has enjoyed enormous success and won widespread admiration for her work across print, radio and television. She is now best known for her many presenting roles across the BBC, including as a regular presenter of BBC Two’s Newsnight and her daily morning show on Radio 5 Live.

Barnett began her journalism career at Media Week, and then moved to The Daily Telegraph as Technology & Digital Media Correspondent. She later became the first person to be appointed Digital Media Editor at the paper, and was then appointed Women’s Editor, launching the Wonder Women digital section in 2012. She also took on radio presenting duties at LBC, and later moved to the BBC, presenting Radio 5 Live’s Hit List show of the week’s biggest online news stories and occasionally guesting on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour as the show’s youngest ever presenter.

In 2016, she moved to 5 Live’s daily morning slot, and also took on a column in The Sunday Times Magazine. She has since presented the award-winning podcast series Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places, sat in for Andrew Marr on The Andrew Marr Show, and has been a regular presenter of Newsnight since early 2019, sharing duties with Emily Maitlis and Kirsty Wark.

Now a recognisable face across a variety of programming, Barnett has appeared on Have I Got News for You, The One Show and ITV’s This Morning, and presented #MeToo: The Debate on Channel 5. She has been a guest on Sky’s The Pledge and the BBC News Channel’s The Papers. She has won a host of awards across her career, including the Online Media Awards’ Digital Writer of the Year, and being named Digital Journalist of the Year by the Association of Online Publishers.