Emma Tucker | |
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| Born | (1966-10-24)24 October 1966 (age 59) London, England |
| Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Editor-in-chief,The Wall Street Journal |
| Children | 3 |
Emma Jane Tucker (born 24 October 1966) is an English journalist and editor-in-chief ofThe Wall Street Journal, where she is the first woman to lead the publication.[1] She was previously the editor ofThe Sunday Times,[2] and a deputy editor ofThe Times.[3]
Tucker was born on 24 October 1966 in London, England, the daughter of Nicholas Tucker and Jacqueline Anthony.[4] She attended Wallands School andPriory School in Lewes, East Sussex.[5] She applied for theUnited World College of the Atlantic in Wales, and was invited for an interview, where she was offered an opportunity to study at theArmand Hammer United World College of the American West (UWC-USA) inSan Miguel County, New Mexico, US. She won a scholarship, and attended the school from the age of 16 in 1983 until 1985.[6][7] She later said "I was very homesick to begin with, but I had an incredible two years there. It was a complete change of pace, life, outlook, everything".[6] She then readPPE atUniversity College, Oxford.[6]
In 1990, Tucker became a graduate trainee at theFinancial Times (FT).[6][8] She worked in the House of Commonspress gallery, and wrote themoney markets column. She worked in the newspaper's economics room at the time of theERM crisis. She later said, "they [theFT] were slightly baffled ... because they hadn't got many young women".[6]
Tucker was posted to Brussels from 1994 to 2000, where she covered the European Union in her first foreign correspondent job.[6][9] In January 2000 she moved to Berlin and was aforeign correspondent in Germany for three years. She applied to become property editor of theFinancial Times, and moved to features.[6] She became editor ofFinancial Times Weekend.[9]
Tucker joinedThe Times in 2007 as associate features editor and a year later became editor ofTimes2. In 2012 she becameThe Times' editorial director.[9] In October 2013 she was appointed deputy editor, under editorJohn Witherow, succeeding Keith Blackmore who had stood down that August.[9][10]
At the end of January 2020,[11] Tucker became the first female editor ofThe Sunday Times sinceRachel Beer in 1901.[2][12] During Tucker's tenure as editor, the newspaper reported oncontroversies regarding COVID-19 contracts.[6]
In December 2022, she was named the new editor ofThe Wall Street Journal, "the first woman to lead the 133-year-old business publication," replacingMatt Murray on February 1, 2023.[1][13]
Tucker has three sons, including one born in February 2001.[6][14] They lived inLewes,East Sussex. Tucker divorced her first husband and moved to London. In 2008, she then married her second husband, Peter Andreas Howarth, who already had three sons.[4][6]
She lives on theUpper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.[15]
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| Preceded by Keith Blackmore | Deputy Editor ofThe Times 2013–2020 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Editor ofThe Sunday Times 2020–2023 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Editor ofThe Wall Street Journal 2023–present | Incumbent |