| Gabrielle Hinsliff | |
| Birth Date: | 1971 7, df=y |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | Queens' College, Cambridge |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Years Active: | 1994–present |
| Spouse: | James Clark |
| Father: | Geoffrey Hinsliff |
Gabrielle Seal Hinsliff (born 4 July 1971)[1] [2] is an English journalist and columnist for The Guardian.[3]
Born in Chelmsford she is one of the daughters of the actor Geoff Hinsliff. She attended Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree in English.[4]
After two years at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph from 1994 to 1996, Hinsliff joined the Daily Mail, where she was successively a news reporter and health reporter, before becoming a political reporter in 1997,[4] and finally chief political correspondent the following year. She joined The Observer in March 2000, initially in the same post, following Andy McSmith, who had joined The Daily Telegraph.[5] Hinsliff was the youngest political editor of a national newspaper when she was promoted in December 2004, this time succeeding Kamal Ahmed, who had been her immediate superior at The Observer since her original appointment.[4] [5] [6]
Although Hinsliff loved the job, she resigned in late September 2009 "to get a life", to move "out of London to write, think, do some projects I never had time for" and "to spend more time with her husband and son".[2] [6]
Hinsliff's book Half a Wife (Chatto & Windus) was published in 2012. Eleanor Mills in The Sunday Times wrote that it is elevated "from the normal middle-class whinge" by "the rigorous analysis she brings to the wider forces that have shaped modern family life and how they might be re-sliced so that families can live differently". Hinsliff, Mills writes, "calls for a non-gender-aligned sharing out of domestic tasks".[7]
Hinsliff spent a period at The Times until July 2014, before becoming a columnist on The Guardian the following September.[8]
In July 2012, she began as editor-at-large of Grazia magazine contributing interviews and columns.[9] Hinsliff contributes to BBC and Sky programmes.
Hinsliff is married to James Clark, a public relations professional.[10]