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Janet Bush

Janet Bush took a B.A. Hons. in English language and literature from Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 1981. She then took a postgraduate degree in journalism at the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff, before joining Reuters in 1982. She was a correspondent in Frankfurt, Germany, between 1983 and 1984 and then joined the Financial Times in 1986 as deputy economics correspondent. From 1987 to 1990, she was New York correspondent for the Financial Times. In 1990, she joined BBC Television as a presenter of economic documentaries for BBC "Two's the Money" programme before joining The Times in 1992 as economics correspondent. She was made economics editor in January 1997.

In February 1999, she took a leave of absence from The Times to serve as director of New Europe, the cross-party campaign against UK membership of the euro. Having launched "No," a joint campaign between New Europe and Business for Sterling, she returned to The Times in August 2000 as economics editor and leader writer.