Hugh Pym (born 1959) is a British journalist and author.
Early life
Pym was educated at Marlborough College and the University of Oxford, graduating BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1981.
Career
A financial and political journalist now working for the BBC, Pym was a BBC radio journalist from 1986 to 1987, then producer of Business Daily at Channel 4, 1987-1988, correspondent with ITN, 1988-1998, and a freelance broadcaster with Sky Television in 1999-2000. He is currently a BBC special correspondent covering Economics. In 2008, he took on the role of acting Economics Editor during the maternity leave of Stephanie Flanders.
While presenting a story for the six o'clock evening news bulletin, Pym often stands up, in a bid to inject 'vim and vigour' into what might otherwise be rather boring and drab.
He has also published books (including a study of Gordon Brown's first year in office as Chancellor of the Exchequer) and has been a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in North Wiltshire.
With his wife Susan, he has two sons and a daughter.
Publications
- The Guinness Affair: Anatomy of a Scandal (London, Christopher Helm Publishers, 1987, ISBN 978-0747026051), with Nick Kochan
- Unit and Investment Trusts (Allied Dunbar Money Guides) (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1988, ISBN 978-0851213835)
- Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power (London, Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 978-0747537014), with Nick Kochan
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