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 lives in Winchester, Hampshire.
Career
[edit]Jenny Cuffe joined the BBC in 1974 as a graduate trainee journalist. Her first position was at BBC 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 Dispatches, as well as writing articles for The Independent and The Guardian before moving 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 a three-part series in 2003 about social workers, The Pariah Profession, which received a Sony Silver award for Best News Programme of the Year in 2004.[5][6]
She has interviewed prominent and often controversial public figures such as Vanessa Redgrave,[7] Dr. Marietta Higgs[8] and Dr. Helena Daly.[9]
Her journalistic work has focussed on areas such as human rights, the rights of refugees, and the trajectory of education policy in stories such as the analysis of the Al Islah Girls' High School in Blackburn.[10] Much of her work has focussed upon contemporary politics and social issues in various parts of Africa.[11]
In 2010 and 2011 she carried out interviews with refugees to the British Isles who live in Southampton for the book This is my home now.[12]
She has written for other publications such as Areté magazine.[13]
Academic study
[edit]Cuffee has studied as a post-graduate at the University of Southampton, pursuing an MA in Transnational Studies.[14] In 2017 she was awarded a PhD by the university; her thesis title was "The Impact of Zimbabwe’s 'crisis' on three transnational families situated in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United Kingdom".[15]
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.
- ^ "The pariah profession (Radio 4 news and current affairs)". The Learning Exchange. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Cuffe, Jenny. "Jenny Cuffe | Arete Magazine". Arete magazine. Archived from the original on 28 September 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Where are they now?". University of Southampton. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "PhD success for Dr Jenny Cuffe". University of Southampton. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2024.