Emma Barnett is a British broadcaster and journalist. She has been the main presenter of Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 since January 2021.
Barnett worked for BBC Radio 5 Live for six years, beginning in 2014, after three years working for LBC. Between 2016 and 2020 she presented 5 Live's mid-morning weekday programme. Before beginning her broadcasting career she worked for The Daily Telegraph, first as its Digital Media editor and latterly its Women editor, being credited with bringing a more serious edge to the coverage of women's issues in the paper.
Between August 2016 and 2020, she was a columnist for The Sunday Times and, from June 2017, a co-presenter of BBC One's Sunday Morning Live. In autumn 2017, she co-presented the live discussion programme After the News on ITV and between 2019 and 2022 she was one of the presenters of the BBC's flagship news and current affairs show Newsnight.
