Ayesha Hazarika named new editor of Evening Standard’s The Londoner

Ayesha Hazarika
19 July 2019

Ayesha Hazarika is to be the new editor of the Evening Standard’s The Londoner.

Editor George Osborne said: “Ayesha is one of the brightest new stars of British journalism. She is already a brilliant columnist for the Standard —and she will now be a formidable editor of our diary pages.

“She builds on the great work of Charlotte Edwardes, who will now be able to focus full-time on the interviews and columns that have rightly won her awards.

If you want to know what’s really going on then it’s simple: you have to read The Londoner.”

Hazarika said: “I’m delighted to be joining the great team at the Evening Standard. I’ve always loved the paper ever since moving here from Glasgow more than 20 years ago, so it’s a huge privilege to be editing the Londoner.”

Ayesha became a much sought-after political commentator and broadcaster as well as an award-winning stand-up comedian after being a special adviser to Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband.

She will begin her new role at the end of this month.

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