The Guardian’s Saturday magazine has appointed award-winning author and journalist Charlotte Edwardes as a new regular interviewer, beginning this week (Saturday 21 January).
A three times British Press Award winner, including interviewer of the year two years in a row, Charlotte joins the Guardian from the Times and the Sunday Times where she was a features writer, interviewer and columnist.
Charlotte will regularly write for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine, interviewing leading names across culture, arts and entertainment; sharing powerful conversation and unique insights with well-known people and personalities from around the world.
Charlotte Edwardes’ first interview for the Guardian is with Pamela Anderson and will be available to read in this weekend’s edition of Saturday (21 January).
Merope Mills, Saturday magazine editor, Guardian News & Media, says:
“I’m so pleased to welcome Charlotte to Saturday. She is a respected and incisive journalist with a natural flair for interviewing, fitting perfectly among Saturday magazine’s rich features journalism that entertains, inspires and sparks conversation among Guardian readers every weekend.”
Charlotte Edwardes says:
“The Guardian has an outstanding reputation for compelling weekend interviews and influential culture journalism, and I can’t wait to work alongside Merope and the Saturday team in bringing more of this to readers.”
Since its launch in 2021, Saturday has picked up a string of industry awards, including for its design, art team, features writing and editorship. The magazine was also highly commended for launch of the year at this year’s BSME Awards.
Every weekend, Saturday brings together unrivalled culture coverage, smart lifestyle features and sustainable travel ideas, as well as exclusive interviews, regular features, popular columns and long reads. The Inside Saturday newsletter also offers readers an exclusive look at the making of a feature from each issue, as well as links to some of the editors’ favourite pieces from the magazine.
Notes to editors
Charlotte Edwardes biography
Charlotte has previously written interviews and features for The Times and The Sunday Times, and has contributed to a range of publications including The Evening Standard and Vogue. She spent ten years as a writer on the Telegraph, where she covered the Iraq war and won awards for investigative reporting. She is a three times British Press Award winner, including interviewer of the year in 2017 and 2018, and was highly commended in the same category in 2021.
About Guardian News & Media
Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language news websites. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.
