Kerry-Anne Mendoza

Kerry-Anne Mendoza (born 13 June 1981[1]) is a writer, journalist and social commentator. Mendoza is editor of The Canary, a left-wing new media outlet.

Early life and education

Mendoza was brought up in Kingswood, near Bristol. She was educated at Kingsfield Secondary School, then started a history degree at the University of Sussex. After a fact-finding programme in Israel/Palestine in 2002, in which she witnessed an Israeli attack in the West Bank city of Ramallah, she withdrew from the university course.[2]

Career

Mendoza has been a project manager for high street banks and is "a former management consultant in banking, local government and the NHS, who left her job to join the Occupy protest", according to her Guardian profile.[3] [2][4]

She co-founded The Canary in 2015, and is its first editor-in-chief.[5][6] Her first book, Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy (ISBN 978-1-78026-246-8), was published in 2015.[7][8]

She has written under "Scriptonite" on the Scriptonite Daily blog[9] and has been a contributor for major news organisations such as The Guardian,[3] openDemocracy,[10] the New Internationalist[11] and RT UK.[12][13] Since 2017, she has appeared on the BBC topical debate programmes Question Time and Any Questions?[2][14]

Personal life

Mendoza co-founded The Canary with her wife, Nancy, who is Jewish. They live in Hambrook, South Gloucestershire.[2][15]

References
  1. "Kerry-Anne MENDOZA - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  2. Daly, Patrick (28 June 2017). "The Canary's Bristolian editor Kerry-Anne Mendoza is going to be on Question Time - this is the story of how she got there". Bristol Post. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. "Kerry-anne Mendoza". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  4. Galloway, George. "'Sputnik' with George Galloway". RT Shows. Episode 138.
  5. Spence, Alex (18 August 2016). "Jeremy Corbyn and the disruptive Canary". POLITICO. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  6. Mayhew, Freddy (20 October 2016). "The Canary: From £500 start-up to top-100 UK news website in the space of a year". Press Gazette. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  7. Miles, Jim (1 June 2015). "Kerry-Anne Mendoza's 'Austerity' – A Review". Foreign Policy Journal. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  8. "Austerity – New Internationalist". New Internationalist. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  9. "Values". The Canary. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  10. "Kerry-anne Mendoza". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  11. Mendoza, Kerry-anne. "Kerry-anne Mendoza". New Internationalist. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  12. Bloodworth, James (9 May 2016). "Beware those critics that prefer Putin's propaganda to the BBC". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  13. Kerry-anne Mendoza, Editor-in-Chief of The Canary. Keiser Report. RT UK. 1 February 2016.
  14. "Any Questions?". BBC. BBC Radio 4. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  15. Mendoza, Nancy (4 April 2019). "Dear Haters, The Canary isn't antisemitic, you just don't like our politics". The Canary. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
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