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Jacqueline Ashley (born 10 September 1954) is an English journalist and broadcaster.
She was educated at Rosebery Grammar School for Girls, a grammar school in Epsom, Surrey. She went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.
Having graduated from university, she spent two years, from 1979–81, as a trainee with the BBC. She was a producer and News presenter on Newsnight from 1981–84. Then, from 1984–86, she was a reporter on TV-am, and a producer and reporter on Channel 4. She moved to ITN in 1986, where she was a Correspondent. She then moved from television to print media, and was political editor of the New Statesman from 2000 to 2002. Since 2002, she has been a columnist and political interviewer for The Guardian.
From October 2015 to October 2018, Ashley was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Women in tech is main focus of new Lucy Cavendish College president Jackie Ashley , Cambridge News, 21 October 2015 She has been a trustee of the Carers Trust since July 2019.
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