Tanya Gold

Tanya Gold (born 31 December 1973 in Merton, London)[1] is an English journalist.

Tanya Gold
Born (1973-12-31) 31 December 1973
Merton, London, England
OccupationJournalist, author
Notable credit(s)
Daily Mail columnist

The Guardian columnist
The Independent columnist

The Spectator columnist

Early life

Gold is Jewish. She was educated at Newland House School, the independent Kingston Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford.

Career

Gold has written for British newspapers, including The Guardian, the Daily Mail, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times[2] and the Evening Standard, and for the news magazine, The Spectator.

Gold has written about her recovery from alcoholism[3][4] and about giving up smoking, "The Quitter".[5]

She has also written about her undercover investigations into the television series Big Brother.

In October 2008, she wrote an article for The Guardian criticizing her alma mater, Merton, and Oxford University more generally, for a culture she saw as privileged, stratified by socioeconomic status, and emotionally repressive, writing, "Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state school kids – for its own good."[6]

In 2009 she was highly commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category at the British Press Awards.[7] In 2010 she won Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards[8] and was also nominated for Columnist of the Year.[9]

References
  1. Gold, Tanya (29 December 2009). "Nightmare on New Year's Eve". The Guardian.
  2. "Speakeasy: Of course there's no sexism at the BBC, just Strictly Come Groping". =The Sunday Times. 21 July 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  3. Gold, Tanya (7 July 2004). "'Group therapy: I still howl at the memory'". The Guardian.
  4. Gold, Tanya (29 January 2008). "As a recovering alcoholic". The Guardian.
  5. Gold, Tanya (21 December 2004). "The quitter". The Guardian.
  6. Gold, Tanya (2 October 2008). "Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state-school kids – for its own good". The Guardian.
  7. "British Press Awards 2009: The full list of winners". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  8. "2010 British Press Awards Winners". Press Gazette. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  9. "British Press Awards shortlist for 2010". Press Gazette. Retrieved 17 February 2011.


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