Isabel Hilton

Isabel Nancy Hilton OBE (born 25 November 1949 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster based in London.

Isabel Hilton
Born (1949-11-25) 25 November 1949
Aberdeen, Scotland
Alma materEdinburgh University

Biography

Hilton was educated at Edinburgh University where she studied Chinese to post-graduate level. As Secretary of the entirely non-subversive China-Scottish Association, based at her University, Hilton was placed on MI5's "Christmas Tree" list, which prevented her from employment with the BBC in 1976.[1] By the time the issue had been resolved, Hilton had become a feature writer for the Daily Express.

Having been the Latin American affairs editor at the Sunday Times, she chose not to move to Wapping with her paper and joined The Independent in 1986 and filled the equivalent post there. Hilton joined The Guardian in 1997, where she contributed a regular column.

Hilton presented The World Tonight (1995–98) on BBC Radio 4 and from 1999 presented Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3. Concurrently from March 2005 to July 2007, she was editor and then editor-in-chief of the openDemocracy.net[2] website and is now the editor of Chinadialogue.

In 2019, Hilton delivered the annual James Cameron memorial lecture at City, University of London[3] on the subject: Journalism with Chinese characteristics: reflections on media in the new era.

Isabel Hilton is married to Neal Ascherson, with whom she has a son and daughter. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[4]

Publication
  • The Search for the Panchen Lama, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, ISBN 0393049698.
gollark: Apparently I also have half the usual upload speed for some horrible reason, so that might be causing it.
gollark: ``` 7: peer7-et-0-1-7.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net 67.970ms 8: 195.99.126.233 26.381ms asymm 7 9: 141.101.71.47 26.857ms asymm 8 10: 172.70.88.137 25.512ms asymm 9 11: 172.70.88.27 31.208ms asymm 10 12: 141.101.106.35 43.680ms asymm 11 13: 141.101.70.144 61.650ms pmtu 1476```I have no idea how to interpret this.
gollark: Usually it's my extremely janky WiFi network failing, but it seems to be working fine today. I'll tracepathize it.
gollark: It might be that, or my internet connection. I can't really tell.
gollark: I can't actually do anything except move around slightly. I would have assumed it was a network issue, but htop says I'm only doing a few tens of KB/s.

References
  1. See Mark Hollingsworth and Richard Norton-Taylor Blacklist: The Inside Story of Political Vetting, London: Hoagarth Press, 1988, p.107-8. The relevant extract (Chapter 5) is online here. See also David Leigh and Paul Lashmar "The Blacklist in Room 105", The Observer, 18 August 1985, p.9
  2. Isabel Hilton "openDemocracy: a farewell salute" Archived 2 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, openDemocracy 17 July 2007. Retrieved on 13 April 2008.
  3. "James Cameron Memorial Lecture". City, University of London. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  4. "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 25.


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