Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde (born Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams; 13 May 1974) is an English journalist who is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper. Hyde writes three articles each week for the paper, on current affairs, celebrity, and sport.

Marina Hyde
Born
Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams

(1974-05-13) 13 May 1974
NationalityBritish
EducationChrist Church, Oxford
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe Guardian
Spouse(s)Kieran Clifton (m. 1999)
Children3
Parent(s)Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dudley-Williams, 2nd Baronet (father)
RelativesSir Rolf Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet (grandfather)

Early life and education

Hyde is the daughter of Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dudley-Williams, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Diana Elizabeth Jane Duncan.[1] Through her father, she is the granddaughter of aviation pioneer and Conservative politician Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet. She attended Downe House School,[2] and read English at Christ Church, Oxford.[3]

The Sun

Hyde began her career in journalism as a temporary secretary on the showbiz desk at The Sun newspaper.[3][4] In an otherwise unrelated article in The Guardian, she wrote: "I am only called Marina Hyde because my real name was too long to fit across a single column in The Sun, where I started out".[5] She was later sacked by Sun editor David Yelland after it emerged she had been exchanging emails with Piers Morgan, editor of rival newspaper the Daily Mirror.[6]

The Guardian

Since 2000, Hyde has worked at The Guardian, at first writing the newspaper's Diary column. She contributes three columns a week: one on sport, one on celebrity, and one which is typically about politics. Her sport column appears on Thursday; her celebrity column is entitled Lost in Showbiz and appears in the G2 supplement each Friday. She has a regular serious column in the main section of The Guardian on Saturday, as well as a column in the "Weekend" supplement, in which she parodies a celebrity diary entry. This is entitled A Peek at the Diary of..., which ends in the sign-off, "As seen by Marina Hyde". Hyde was nominated as Columnist of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards.

A libel action brought by Elton John against The Guardian, in reaction to Hyde's spoof diary column "A peek at the diary of... 'Sir Elton John'", published in July 2008,[7] was rejected. The judge, Mr Justice Tugendhat, said that in this case "irony" and "teasing" do not amount to defamation.[8] Hyde published a follow-up diary of Elton John in 2009.[9]

In November 2011, The Guardian was required to apologise to The Sun newspaper for an article in which Hyde had falsely alleged the newspaper had visited the home of a member of the legal team of the Leveson Inquiry. In the front-page story Hyde had accused The Sun of "blowing a giant raspberry at Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry".[10][11] The Sun's then[12] managing editor Richard Caseby sent a toilet roll accompanied by "a squalid note" to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger after Hyde's false story.[13]

A few months later, Caseby once again objected to an article by Hyde in which, according to Roy Greenslade, she was "employing irony",[14] in a reference to Page 3 models following a comment on Twitter by Rupert Murdoch and the use by The Sun of a photograph of model Reeva Steenkamp in a bikini, on the day after her murder.[15] Caseby objected to the article,[16] and complained to The Guardian's readers' editor, but his complaint was the only one received.[17]

Hyde received two awards from the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) in February 2020, including Sports Journalist of the Year, the first woman to receive the award in its 43-year history. The other award was for Sports Columnist of the Year. She had worked during the year on stories concerning the decision to award a knighthood to Geoff Boycott, Tiger Woods at the 2019 Masters and the Women's World Cup.[18]

Other work

Hyde's book about celebrity, Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy, was published in 2009.[19]

She appeared occasionally as a reviewer on the BBC's Newsnight Review.[20]

Personal life

In 1999, Hyde married Kieran Oliver Edward Clifton.[21][22] The couple had a child in 2010 and live in London.[1][22] Their third child was born in summer 2014.[23]

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References
  1. "- Person Page 40482".
  2. Hyde, Marina. "Who are these royal wedding fans? One doesn't know such people socially".
  3. "Marina Hyde". BBC News. 30 September 2005.
  4. Hyde, Marina (24 July 2011). "Phone-hacking scandal: What I learned about news by temping for Sean Hoare". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  5. Hyde, Marina (27 April 2017). "Orlando Bloom's elf warning: 'Don't get on the wrong side of me'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  6. Hagerty, Bill (25 May 2004). "The Piers Morgan that you won't read about in the newspapers". The Independent. London.
  7. Hyde, Marina (5 July 2008). "A peek at the diary of ... Elton John". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  8. Hyde, Marina (13 December 2008). "A victory for irony as Elton John loses Guardian libel case". The Guardian. London.
  9. Hyde, Marina (19 December 2008). "A peek at the diary of Elton John". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  10. "Guardian apologises to Sun for Leveson doorstepping claim". Journalism.co.uk.
  11. "Britain's Guardian sorry for Sun hacking probe claim". Economic Times.
  12. Ponsford, Dominic (1 July 2013). "Sun's outspoken managing editor Richard Caseby understood to be standing down". Press Gazette.
  13. Greenslade, Roy (24 December 2011). "Caseby's squalid note to the Guardian editor shows News International's true face". The Guardian.
  14. Greenslade, Roy (20 February 2013). "The Sun doesn't do irony, as its managing editor illustrates once again". The Guardian.
  15. Hyde, Marina (15 February 2013). "Reeva Steenkamp's corpse was in the morgue, her body was on the Sun's front page". The Guardian.
  16. Caseby, Richard (18 February 2013). "Why the Guardian's Verbal Sexual Assault on Page Three Girls Is Baffling". The Huffington Post.
  17. Caseby, Richard (21 February 2013). "Isn't it ironic? No, says Sun's Richard Caseby over Guardian depiction of Page 3 'downmarket scrubbers'". Press Gazette.
  18. "The Guardian's Marina Hyde wins two SJA awards in landmark achievement". The Guardian. 24 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  19. "Marina Hyde". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  20. "Marina Hyde". 30 September 2005. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  21. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2008, p. 1008
  22. Norman, Matthew (22 November 2010). "Diary: The paper with teeth". The Independent. London.
  23. Hyde, Marina (5 December 2014). "Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal 'care'". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
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