About me

Excitedly holding the 2012 Olympic torch

My name is Emma Barnett and I work as both a writer and broadcaster. Originally born and bred in Manchester, I now live and work in London.

I am the Digital Media Editor of The Telegraph and so I write and broadcast all about the latest news and trends across the fast-changing media and technology landscapes. I have been named digital journalist of the year at the Association of Online Publishers 2011 Awards. Essentially the Oscars of the digital journalism world, it was a huge honour. Fantastically I also won the Digital Writer of the Year gong at the Online Media Awards 2011, sponsored by Press Association – another amazing gong.

I focus on TV, radio, social networks, the music industry, and the latest innovations to come out of Silicon Valley.  I regularly travel around the world reporting on, and sometimes chairing, the key conferences in this field, such as the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and the Monaco Media Forum.

I have a monthly column in The Sunday Telegraph called ThinkTank, which focuses on how the latest developments in digital media can be exploited by the masses.

I write regular features in Psychologies magazine about how the web and technology is changing us and our daily lives.

To date I have had the pleasure of interviewing a wide range of people including: Queen Rania of Jordan, the wonderful journalist Joan Bakewell, Hollywood heart throb Rob Lowe, the political dynamo Arianna Huffington and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

Broadcast work and projects:

Every Sunday I host my own radio show, the Sunday drive-time slot, on LBC, London’s Biggest Conversation (97.3) from 4-7pm, in which I examine the biggest news stories of the day, interviewing the key people making the headlines.

This year I am presenting a new 12-part TV show on Sky One about digital media and technology. Here’s my take for The Telegraph on filming Gadget Geeks.

Excitingly I am also presenting a documentary for BBC Radio 4 later this year looking at our online identities and who owns our information in the digital age.

Every month, I take on the role of ‘The Interrogator’, for a new podcast that confronts social, political and religious dilemmas from all angles.

Each week I review the newspapers on such shows as Sky News Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes and Mark Longhust and Nick Ferrari’s LBC radio breakfast programme.

I am also a frequent commentator on media, technology, women’s issues and culture for BBC Radio 4, BBC Five Live, BBC World Service, BBC Three, Sky News, CNN and ABC News.

Prior to joining The Telegraph in April 2009, I worked as a news reporter for Media Week covering the TV and radio beats. I also contributed to The Times, The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, Esquire Magazine and TimeOut London.

I studied History and Politics as an undergraduate at Nottingham University, followed by the postgraduate journalism diploma at Cardiff University.

I was thrilled to have made it into Red Magazine’s annual ’20 under 30′ Hot List – which selects the most up and coming women under the age of 30, across a range of industries, who are the ‘ones to watch’. And also to have been ranked the ninth most influential UK journalist on Twitter out of 900 hacks by Peer Index, a leading social media index (follow me @emmabarnett to make your own judgment).

This site contains a range of my written and broadcasting work and will be updated regularly.  I hope you enjoy!

Emma

Last updated 16th January 2012