Jenny Cuffe
Jenny Cuffe is a freelancer and BBC journalist.
Education[edit]
She attended St Catherine's School, Bramley.[1]
She studied English literature at Newnham College and Cambridge University, before embarking upon a career as a print and radio journalist.[2] She currently lives in Winchester, Hampshire.
Career[edit]
Jenny Cuffe joined the BBC in 1974 as a graduate trainee journalist. Her first position was at Radio Solent. This followed a position in local print journalism with a year at the Surrey Advertiser.
She then worked on Woman's Hour, BBC2's Public Eye and Channel 4's Despatches, as well as writing articles for the Independent newspaper and the Guardian newspaper before progressing to the BBC radio current affairs team in Manchester where she hosted the Seven Days series. She regularly produces reports for BBC File on 4 having joined it under the editorship of Helen Boaden.[3][4] She also presented The Pariah Profession which received a Sony Silver award for Best News Programme of the Year in 2004.[5]
She has interviewed prominent and often controversial public figures such as Vanessa Redgrave,[6] Dr. Marietta Higgs[7] and Dr. Helena Daly.[8]
Her journalistic work has focused on certain key areas such as human rights, the rights of refugees, and the trajectory of education policy in stories such as the analysis of the Islamic Al-Islah school in Blackburn.[9] Much of her work has focused upon contemporary politics and social issues in various parts of Africa.[10]
In 2010 and 2011 she conducted interviews with refugees to the British Isles for the book This is my home now.[11]
She has recently been studying on a post-graduate basis at the University of Southampton, pursuing an MA in Transnational Studies.[12]
She has also written for other publications such as Arete magazine.[13]
References[edit]
- ^ Surrey Advertiser Friday 23 May 1969, page 6
- ^ "Meet the team". BBC News. 5 October 2004. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ Chignell, Hugh (2011). Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 2000. ISBN 978-0230346451. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Jenny Cuffe". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Meet the team". BBC News. 5 October 2004. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Vanessa Redgrave in conversation". St Swithuns. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ Hart, Andrew (2006). Understanding the Media: A Practical Guide. Routledge. p. 221. ISBN 1134933703.
- ^ Cuffe, Jenny (25 July 1993). "Exclusive: 'I wasn't one of the girls, but I wasn't one of the men, either': Helena Daly, the hospital doctor sacked for 'rudeness', talks to Jenny Cuffe". The Independent. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin (2011). FRAMING MUSLIMS. Harvard University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0674048522.
- ^ Henry F. Carey, Stacey M. Mitchell (2013). Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution. Lexington Books. p. 251. ISBN 978-0739169414. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ This is My Home Now: Stories from Refugees in Southampton. ASIN 0956896308.
- ^ "Where are they now?". University of Southampton. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ Cuffe, Jenny. "Jenny Cuffe | Arete Magazine". Arete magazine. Retrieved 21 September 2014.