Helen Brown joined The Week as staff sub-editor in 2024. She edits and fact-checks articles, and also writes the odd one or two. She has a particular interest in health and sport, and has written a book on parenting.
She read Classics and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, where she wrote for the student paper, Cherwell, and then studied magazine journalism as a postgrad at City University, London. After working as a local newspaper reporter and a sports researcher for the BBC, she cut her sub-editing teeth at Radio Times, before becoming chief sub-editor at Cosmopolitan and then the health-and-fitness magazine Zest. She also wrote for The Guardian, The Independent and the Daily Mail.
In a switch to digital content, she joined parenting site Mumsnet as associate editor, writing articles and running the moderation team, and then became head of content delivery at MadeForMums, where she won a PPA award in 2024. She's a keen swimmer but undoes all her hard work in the pool by spending far too much time in the biscuit tin.
