Catherine Bennett (journalist)

Catherine Dorothea Bennett (born 1956) is a British journalist.

Bennett was educated at Lawnswood High School, Leeds, and Hertford College, Oxford.

Bennett began her career in journalism at Honey magazine. Subsequently, she worked at The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Times and the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper before joining The Guardian around 1990.[1] She joined The Observer at the beginning of 2008, where she continues to write columns on politics and culture, and at least two articles criticizing the peerage system and what she considers the still-extant privileges of the nobility.[2][3]

Catherine Bennett was on the Orwell Prize's Journalism shortlist for 2009.[4]

She was formerly married to Robert Sackville-West (1985–92). She then married the books editor of the Evening Standard, David Sexton.[5] She has also had a relationship with the broadcaster John Humphrys.[6]