Sherelle Jacobs

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Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph[1] and has previously written for The Guardian.[2]

Career

She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time in November 2019 and on Any Questions? in May of the same year.[3][4] Jacobs is a Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[5][6] Jacobs is sceptical towards elements within the environmental movements claims of a climate emergency, while still believing climate change is an existential problem.[7]

Personal life

Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School[8] and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London before going into a career in journalism. After working on the breaking news desk for Deutsche Welle in the German city of Bonn, Jacobs worked in Tunisia as a freelance journalist. While in Tunis, her journalistic interest was focused on the Arab Spring, its problems and the rise of Islamist extremism in the Maghreb.[9][10]

Notes

  1. ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Telegraph.
  2. ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?, Sherelle Jacobs, Paul Mason, Gina Miller, Sir Anthony Seldon". BBC.
  4. ^ Hopkins, Daniel (21 November 2019). "Bolton's Question Time line-up announced". Bolton News. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  5. ^ Withers, Matt (21 November 2019). "Who is on the BBC Question Time panel tonight?". New European. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  6. ^ https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tcws-brexit-roll-of-honour-the-telegraphs-sherelle-jacobs/
  7. ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (2019-12-03). "The UN's 'woke' climate change propaganda is an insult to science". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  8. ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (1 May 2018). "Justine Greening has got it wrong. We don't need to punish Etonians - we need more families like mine". The Telegraph.
  9. ^ "Sherelle Jacobs".
  10. ^ The Paths of the Arab Spring. World Politics Review. June 4, 2013. ISBN 9781939907110 – via Google Books.

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