Description: Louise Ridley is an award-winning journalist based in London. Since April 2024, she has been the Editorial Director of The Female Lead. Louise has 16 years of experience across digital, print and audio journalism. She specialises in editing features and longform and running special editorial projects, and has covered news, politics, social affairs, gender, science,…
Louise Ridley
Louise Ridley is an award-winning journalist based in London. Since April 2022, she has been the Senior Features Editor at Insider.
She was formerly senior journalist at BBC Newsbeat, editing news and features for the BBC’s flagship youth news programme on Radio 1 and 1Xtra as well as digital stories on the BBC News website. Before this she was special projects editor at HuffPost UK and the first news editor for longform and special projects for BuzzFeed UK which was named Website of the Year at the 2018 Society of Editors Press Awards.