Jane Merrick Biography
Jane Merrick is a media personality serving as the policy editor at the i newspaper. Previously, she was the political editor of The Independent on Sunday between 2008 and 2015. She also worked as a political correspondent for The Daily Mail and the Press Association.
Jane Merrick Age
How old is Jane Merrick? Jane is 49 years old as of April 2023. She was born on 23 November 1973 in Liverpool, England.
Jane Merrick Height
She is 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Jane Merrick Nationality
She is British by nationality.
Jane Merrick Education
Merrick went to a comprehensive school in the suburb of Aigburth where she grew up. She then studied at the University of Leeds.
Jane Merrick Family
Jane was born in Liverpool, England, and grew up in the suburb of Aigburth. Her parents were teachers who support the Labour Party. In interviews, Jane has discussed how her mother was one of 31,000 council workers to be threatened with redundancy by Derek Hatton and the Militant in Liverpool. She has two siblings. However, not much is known about them.
Jane Merrick Husband
Is Jane Merrick married? Jane is in a relationship with Toby Helm, the political editor of The Observer. The couple met in the lobby when Jane was working at the Daily Mail and Helm was at the Telegraph. Prior to Jane’s move to become a freelance journalist and later a policy editor at i paper, the pair were Sunday political editor rivals — Jane at the Independent on Sunday and Helm at the Observer. They have a daughter named Amelia who was born on July 18, 2010.
“We still talk about politics all the time,” Jane told POLITICO referring to her partner Helm.
Jane Merrick ipaper
Who is Jane Merrick? Merrick is the policy editor at the i newspaper, a British national morning paper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust and distributed across the United Kingdom. Prior to joining i, Merrick was the political editor of The Independent on Sunday between 2008 and 2015.
At the age of 19, Merrick set up a listings magazine called L: Scene during her gap year in 1993 which was her first job in journalism. She worked as a political correspondent for the Press Association in Westminster between 2001 and 2003. She then worked for The Daily Mail as a political correspondent between 2003 and 2008.
Merrick left the newspaper to become the political editor for The Independent on Sunday, a position she held till 2015 when she became a freelance journalist to spend more time with her daughter. She co-founded a daily news briefing email service called The Spoon which launched in 2017.
In 2016, Merrick joined the Labour Party to support Angela Eagle’s bid to become leader in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election. She left Labour Party in 2018 due to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and their handling of antisemitism within the party.
In November 2017, then Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon resigned following Merrick’s allegation of sexual harassment when she was a 29-year-old journalist for The Daily Mail in 2003. She had accused Fallon of lunging toward her. Merrick was highlighted in Time’s Person of the Year edition in the same year, which highlighted “The Silence Breakers” who spoke out against sexual harassment. She was also named in The House magazine’s list of 100 most inspirational women in Westminster in 2022.
Jane Merrick Salary
She receives an average annual salary of £50,000 for her role as a policy editor at i paper. This is the average annual salary of an editor in the UK as of 2023.
Jane Merrick Net Worth
Merrick earns well from her job as the policy editor at i paper. Hence, her net worth ranges between £1 million – £5 million as of 2023.
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