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Camilla Long
Born
Camilla Elizabeth Long

28 November 1978
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist
Parent(s)Richard Pelham Long
Roslyn Vera Britton

Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 28 November 1978)[1] is a British journalist with The Times and The Sunday Times.

Descended from the aristocratic Clinton family (Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785–1851) is an ancestor through her paternal grandmother),[2] she was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[3] In 2010 she was the 2009 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)".[4]

In 2013 she won the Hatchet Job of the Year award for a piece on Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation,[5] having been nominated the previous year. In April 2013 and again in April 2014 she appeared on BBC One's Have I Got News for You. She has also appeared on Newswipe with Charlie Brooker.

In July 2013 Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic of The Sunday Times.[6]

References

  1. ^ Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  2. ^ "Person Page – 35938". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges". Ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  4. ^ Stephen Brook (24 March 2010). "Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  5. ^ "BBC News – Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review". Bbc.co.uk. 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  6. ^ "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic", News UK, 1 July 2013

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