Jeff Randall (journalist)
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Jeff William Randall (born October 3, 1954) is a business journalist, formerly the business editor of BBC News and from 2005 editor-at-large of the Daily Telegraph.
Randall was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford, United Kingdom and the University of Nottingham. He did a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Florida.
Randall worked as Assistant Editor of Financial Weekly, then between 1986 and 1988 as City correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph. From 1989 to 1994 he was city editor of The Sunday Times, becoming City and Business Editor 1994-95, as well as a Director of Times Newspapers. He was also a director of a City PR firm. He then became assistant editor and sports editor of the Sunday Times.
Randall became the first editor of Sunday Business newspaper in 1998, before moving to the BBC in 2001. He appeared regularly on the Ten O'clock News and BBC News 24. He resigned as BBC business editor in late 2005 to join the Daily Telegraph as 'editor-at-large'. He was replaced as BBC business editor by Robert Peston, formerly associate editor at the Telegraph. Randall continues to work on BBC projects, including presenting Sunday Business on BBC Radio Five Live.
He won the London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award in 2000 and the FT Analysis' Financial Journalist of the Year award in 1991.
He is an avid supporter of successful Glasgow football club Rangers, whom he describes as the quintessentially British team.[1]
