Telegraph Poaches BBC’s Randall For Business Role

The Daily Telegraph has continued its recruitment drive, hiring one of Britain’s best known and most influential business commentators Jeff Randall as its new editor-at-large, contributing two weekly columns to the paper.

Randall will leave the BBC, where he has been business editor for the last four years, to take up his new post, leaving behind the revolutionised financial and business coverage he helped to instil at the Corporation.

Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Martin Newland, welcomed Randall to the paper, stating: “Jeff is a marvelous acquisition for The Daily Telegraph. He talks and writes about complex financial matters in a language people understand. And he does it with extraordinary authority.”

Randall will continue to work for the BBC on a part time basis, maintaining some of his current roles, including hosting Weekend Business, the Sunday radio show on Radio Five Live.

The move will see the high profile business mind return to newspapers, an area in which he has held several high profile positions in the past, including a six-year reign as city editor of the Sunday Times and three years as editor of Sunday Business (now The Business).

Commenting on his appointment, Randall said: “I am delighted to be joining The Daily Telegraph. I have had a great time at the BBC, but the chance to write a column in Britain’s best-read quality newspaper is just too great to say no to. I can’t wait to get started.”

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