Emma Barnett Biography
Emma Barnett is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who currently presents The Emma Barnett Show on BBC Radio 5 Live Monday to Thursday 10 am – 1 pm. She has interviewed notable names and takes her listeners to places they normally can’t access. Her program won Gold at the Arias, the Radio Academy Awards 2018, for Best News Coverage of real-life stories, and Emma was named Radio Broadcaster of the Year 2018 by the Broadcasting Press Guild and Broadcaster of the Year 2017 by the Political Studies Association.
Barnett regularly hosts Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and the late-night version of the show. She is the youngest person in the program’s long history to occupy the presenter’s position. She further presents the weekend debate program on BBC One, Sunday Morning Live, makes films for The One Show, and has hosted The Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight, Politics Live, Sky News’s The Pledge, and ITV’s After The News series.
Emma Barnett Age
Barnett is 38 years old as of 2023. She was born on February 5, 1985, in Manchester, United Kingdom. In addition, Emma celebrates her birthday on February 5th every year.
Emma Barnett Height
Barnett stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 4 inches tall.
Emma Barnett Education
Barnett attended Manchester High School for Gils. She later graduated from the University of Nottingham with a degree in History and Politics. Moreover, she took a postgraduate degree in journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies.
Emma Barnett Husband
Barnett is happily married to her husband since 2012. The lovebirds first met at the University, dated, and later exchanged their marriage vows in 2012. However, she has not disclosed further information about her husband.
Emma Barnett Children
Emma and her loving husband are blessed with a son. However, they have not revealed much about their son.
Emma Barnett Family
Barnett is the daughter of Ian Barnett and Michelle Barnett. Her father was a local businessman who worked in commercial property mainly while her mother was a housewife. During her teenage years, Emma’s father ran brothels in the Greater Manchester area.
Emma Barnett Career
Following her postgraduate studies at Cardiff, Barnett began her career in journalism at Media Week in 2007 before moving on to The Daily Telegraph in 2009, where she became the paper’s first digital media editor and, later, the women’s editor, beginning in 2012. In October 2012, Barnett launched The Telegraph’s digital section “Wonder Women,” with contributors such as Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News. She also became chair of the UJIA Jewish media network and the UJIA Skirt Network, a Jewish women’s networking group.
Barnett worked as a radio presenter for LBC for nearly three years until early 2014, when he joined BBC Radio 5 Live. She began presenting the station’s Hit List program in November 2014, a weekly countdown of the top 40 online news stories of the week. Following her departure from The Telegraph, Barnett began presenting the morning slot on BBC Radio 5 Live in September 2016, becoming the first woman to have a solo daily slot since the departure of Shelagh Fogarty and Victoria Derbyshire in a new-look schedule two years earlier.
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In April 2014, Barnett was a judge for Woman’s Hour’s (BBC Radio 4) power list, a show on which she had previously appeared as an occasional presenter, the youngest in the show’s history. Barnett did work experience with Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray when she was 17 years old, a decade before she started on the show. She has also produced documentaries for Radio 4. Barnett’s ‘Tough Love’ agony column debuted in The Sunday Times Magazine in August 2016. She referred to “the most painful chapter of my life” when her father was “imprisoned for living off immoral earnings” to encourage her readers to write about difficult issues.
In March 2018, Barnett launched Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places, a podcast series for Historic England. In April 2018, the podcast, hosted by Barnett and Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, was nominated for a British Podcast Award in the category of ‘Best Branded Content.’ She joined BBC Two’s Newsnight as a regular presenter in March 2019. Her book Period. It’s About Bloody Time, which detailed her experience with endometriosis, was published in 2019.
During a December 2019 episode of BBC Question Time, Barnett was widely chastised for her line of questioning to Angela Rayner, in which she referred to Labour as the “party of the big state” and asked if they would “nationalize sausages.” Barnett was announced as the new main presenter of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 in September 2020. In January 2021, she began hosting the show from Monday to Thursday.
Emma Barnett Net Worth
Barnett has an estimated net worth of between $4 million – $6 million. This includes her assets, money, and income. He income is mainly from her successful career as a broadcast journalist.
Emma Barnett Salary
Barnett receives an approximate annual salary of between $40,000 – $110,000.