BBC Newsnight appoints new Business Editor
Helen Thomas, currently European Editor of the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column, has been appointed as Business Editor at BBC Newsnight.
Published: 10 May 2016
Helen has a rare combination of deep expert knowledge, a remarkable facility for explaining the financial world to laypeople, and a rapier-sharp analytical mind.
Helen - who, prior to joining the Wall Street Journal in 2013, worked for the Financial Times for nine years - started her career as an analyst in the City. While at the FT, she was the paper's mining correspondent, the New York-based mergers and acquisitions correspondent and a writer for the Lex column. She also helped launch financial blog FT Alphaville.
Ian Katz, Editor of Newsnight, says: “Helen has a rare combination of deep expert knowledge, a remarkable facility for explaining the financial world to laypeople, and a rapier-sharp analytical mind. I’m delighted she will be following in a great tradition of Newsnight economics and business journalists.”
Helen Thomas says: "I am thrilled to be joining the team at Newsnight. It is an honour to be invited to work with such a talented group of journalists and to have the opportunity to explore the biggest business and finance stories of the day for the Newsnight audience.”
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