Allegra Stratton

Allegra Stratton is political editor of BBC Two's Newsnight programme.^[1]

Career

Stratton attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she read archaeology and anthropology. She has worked as a producer for the BBC, on the foreign desk at The Times and written for The Independent and The New Statesman.

After leaving the BBC, she joined The Guardian' as a political correspondent, presentling the newspapers 'Politics Weekly' podcast with Tom Clark.^[2]

Newsnight

Stratton returned to the BBC on 20 February 2012.^[3] as political editor of Newsnight. She replaced Michael Crick who left to become a political correspondent for Channel 4.^[1]

Stratton was criticised for an interview broadcast on Newsnight on 23 May 2012.^[4] She interviewed a woman whom The Independent reported to have been "fuming" because "the piece was edited to make her seem like a 'jobless ponce'" whereas she did in fact have a job.^[5] Peter Rippon, the Editor of Newsnight, later apologised in an open letter to Thorpe, accepting that someone could have got the false impression she was unemployed, though that would not have been defamatory of Thorpe anyway.^[6]

Publications

She is also the author of the novel Muhajababes, which explores the youth culture of the Middle East. While Stratton did not coin the term "muhajababe" herself, she addressed the contradictions of modern life of young adults in Muslim societies. (The term arises from "muhajabe," itself a term for "veil.") ^{[7] [8]}

References

Articles and interviews

• http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/authors/allegra_stratton/index.html
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/allegrastratton

Book

• Muhajababes New York, Melville House Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1-933633-50-6