Helen Lewis (journalist)
| Helen Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1983 (age 32–33) |
| Other names | Helen Lewis-Hasteley |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor |
Helen Lewis (briefly known as Helen Lewis-Hasteley, born 1983) is an English journalist who is the Deputy Editor of the New Statesman.[1] She has also written for The Guardian,[2] and has worked as a sub-editor for the Daily Mail.
Life and career
Lewis read English at St Peter's College, Oxford, and after graduating, gained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism from London's City University. Subsequently she was accepted on the Daily Mail's programme for trainee sub-editors, working in the job for a few years, and later was part of the team responsible for commissioning features for the newspaper.
For five years,[3] from August 2006,[4] Lewis ran a networking scheme, open to all young journalists, called Schmooze and Booze, for which she organised events held in a Central London pub every other month.[3] Lewis commented in 2007 that older colleagues, who had worked with each other for quite a long time, all seemed to know each other, while her contemporaries did not.[5]
Lewis was appointed as Deputy Editor of the New Statesman in May 2012,[6] after becoming Assistant Editor in 2010.[7] She is married to the journalist Jonathan Haynes.[8]
Lewis's law
Lewis's law is an eponymous law taken from her observation that "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism". Lewis first made the observation on Twitter on 9 August 2012,[9] and it was quoted afterwards in Wired UK[10] as part of a piece on the Donglegate incident, in which an engineer and a self-styled "developer evangelist" were fired after the latter accused two engineers sitting behind her of making sexual jokes at PyCon 2013.
References
- ↑ "Contact Us", New Statesman website
- ↑ Helen Lewis, contributor page, guardian.co.uk
- 1 2 Helen Lewis-Hasteley "The secret of networking? Talking", The Guardian, 10 January 2012
- ↑ "Schmooze and Booze celebrates first birthday", Press Gazette, 28 August 2007
- ↑ "Plenty of schmoozing and plenty of boozing", Press Gazette, 13 June 2007
- ↑ 'Media Monkey' "Media Monkey: Warren Buffett, a BSkyB buffet, and Danny Cohen", guardian.co.uk, 27 May 2013
- ↑ "New appointments and web expansion", newstatesman.com, 16 May 2012
- ↑ Urwin, Rosamund (10 August 2015). "Boxing clever: why everyone from Gigi Hadid to Ellie Goulding is toning up in the ring". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ Lewis, Helen (9 August 2012). "@helenlewis". Twitter. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
As I've just told @alicetiara, the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. That is Lewis's Law.
- ↑ Marwick, Alice (29 March 2013). "Donglegate: Why the Tech Community Hates Feminists". Wired UK. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
External links
- Contributor page at the New Statesman
- Helen Lewis's blog