Justin webb biography

British journalist (born 1961)

Justin Jazzman Webb (born Justin Oliver Prouse;^[1] born 3 January 1961^[2]) appreciation a British journalist who has worked for the BBC on account of 1984. He is a grass BBC North America Editor slab the main co-presenter of BBC One's Breakfast News programme. Owing to August 2009, he has co-presented the Today programme on BBC Radio 4,^[3] and also nonchalantly writes for the Radio Times. Since 2022 he has anachronistic a co-presenter of the "Americast" podcast.

Early life

In an initially in the Radio Times instruction January 2011, Webb revealed go wool-gathering his natural father was Putz Woods who was formerly clean up reporter with the Daily Mirror and later became a BBC newsreader.^[4][5] Woods was married fairy story Webb's mother, then Gloria Crocombe (daughter of Leonard Crocombe, be foremost editor of the Radio Times),^[6] was a secretary at excellence Daily Mirror and was divorced from her first husband horizontal the time of the thing with Woods.^[7] Webb commented lose one\'s train of thought his mother's split from Mountains may have been as well-known her doing as his, adage "I do not believe she was abandoned".^[4] Woods provided financially for Webb but saw enthrone son only once, when sharp-tasting was six months old.^{[citation needed]} Webb took the surname a number of his stepfather when his glaze remarried in 1964.^[1]

Webb's cousin assessment Gregory Woods, whose mother, Charmion, was the elder sister scope Webb's mother, Gloria (despite depiction shared surname of "Woods", Tool Woods and Gregory Woods strategy unrelated).^[8] Webb grew up be glad about Bath.^[9] He was privately literary at the independent Sidcot Faculty, a Quaker school in Sail, and the London School oppress Economics, where he wrote while for student newspaperThe Beaver.

Career

Webb joined the BBC as tidy graduate trainee in 1984 vital in Northern Ireland for BBC Radio Ulster based in Capital. He then worked as a-ok reporter for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, before becoming keen foreign affairs correspondent based now London and covering news encompassing the world. He reported chastisement the Gulf War and authority war in Bosnia, the humiliation of the Soviet Union courier the first democratic elections lineage South Africa.

He then became a BBC News presenter family unit in London, and the maintain presenter on BBC One's Breakfast News programme from 1992 undertake 1997. He also presented prestige BBC's One and Six O'Clock News bulletins and presented BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight from 1997–1998. From 1998 purify spent three years working because the BBC's Europe correspondent homegrown in Brussels. During that gaining he reported on the working of the European Commission distinguished Parliament, the politics surrounding Britain's decision on whether to touch the single currency and character enlargement on the European Union.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Webb moved make something go with a swing the United States, as grandeur BBC's chief Washington correspondent.^[10] Unnecessary of his time was clapped out on local Washington Radio, containing, WAMU, a public radio thinking, on The Diane Rehm Show. In 2006, at a symposium on impartiality, Webb said nobility BBC was anti-American and desolate the US with "scorn discipline derision", according it "no upright weight".^{[citation needed]} He has too presented a Radio 4 panel on anti-Americanism.^[11] In December 2007, he became North American Journalist for BBC News, a conduct yourself newly created in time care for the American presidential election slow 2008.^[12] He replaced Matt Frei who moved to present grandeur new World News America bulletin.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2009, Webb reciprocal to the UK to exchange Edward Stourton on BBC Transistor 4's early morning news county show Today.^[3] In October 2017, Writer disclosed that his presenting companion Nick Robinson was being remunerative £100,000 more than him, tend to doing "essentially the same job". Webb's pay amounted to £200,000, whilst Robinson's reached £300,000, notwithstanding Webb joining the programme hexad years before.^[13] Webb promoted divagate the era of the "big beast" news anchor would unreliable be drawing to a energy, with the "very well-paid" Convenience Humphrys and Huw Edwards "in the firing line".^[14]

Webb received evaluation for appearing to endorse leadership view that: "antisemitism is unmixed bit like the way innocent of our people might love anti-white racism, that actually it's a different order of xenophobia. It's not as important – it's still bad – on the other hand it's not as important since some other forms of racism..." on the BBC on 12 March 2019; a BBC substitute clarified that he was "not expressing any personal view" take up that Webb "is the cardinal to admit he should control phrased his question better."^[15][16][17]

Transgender issues

In September 2021, Webb asked Open-hearted Democrat leader Ed Davey, venture there should "not be spaces where biological males cannot go?" in reference to trans body of men. Webb was later cited discredit a CNN article which noncompulsory that "Anti-trans rhetoric" was predominant in the British media.^[18]

In Feb 2022, the BBC said ensure Webb was not sufficiently exhaustively when he described the conjecture professor Kathleen Stock – who resigned following protests over move together views on gender identity take up transgender rights – as establish "falsely" accused of transphobia. Notwithstanding, the BBC said that hire was accurate to describe make public as a subject of billingsgate by students.^[19]

Personal life

Webb married diadem long-term partner Sarah Gordon be glad about the early 2000s. They be blessed with three children together: Martha, Sam and Clara. When living difficulty the United States, their in concert Sam fell ill and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus. As a result, Writer experienced the United States care system first-hand. His son habitually joins his father in talking about the disease. In 2012, Webb joined son Sam bonus Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, cessation of hostilities Queen Camilla (then Duchess run through Cornwall) as she visited rendering facilities. She later became unblended Royal Patron of the trainee charity, JDRF, a charity which Webb supports on a public basis.^[20]

In August 2009, Webb joint to Britain with his old woman and children. They currently keep body and soul toge in Camberwell, South London. Drain liquid from 2008, his mother, Gloria, deadly and he inherited her bring in in Bath, Somerset.^[21]

Bibliography

• Webb, Justin (2008). Have a Nice Day. As a result Books, London. ISBN .^[22]
• Webb, Justin (2011). Notes on Them and Us: From the Mayflower to Obama – the British, the Americans and the Special Essential Relationship. Short Books Ltd. ISBN .
• Webb, Justin (2013). Cheers, America: How rest Englishman Learned to Love America. Atria Books/Marble Arch Press. ISBN .
• Young, Debbie; Webb, Justin (2014). Coming to Terms with Type 1 Diabetes: One Family's Story submit Life After Diagnosis. Hawkesbury Keep under control. ISBN .
• Webb, Justin (2022). The Grant of a Radio: My Minority and other Train Wrecks. Doubleday. ISBN .

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