Emma Barnett (born 5 February 1985) is a British broadcaster and journalist who presented Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 from 2021 until 2024.

In March 2024, Barnett announced she would step down from Woman's Hour in April, to join the BBC's long-running Today programme, as part of their presenting team.

[13] Although Barnett refuses to talk about or answer questions concerning her father's conviction,[14] she has written that the experience traumatised her[15] and that it has been a "long, horribly bumpy road to forgiveness".

Barnett launched The Telegraph's digital section, "Wonder Women", in October 2012 with contributors such as Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News.

[22] From November 2014, she presented the station's Hit List programme, a countdown of the 40 highest profile online news stories of the week.

[25][26] A decade before Barnett began her role on Woman's Hour, at 17, she did work experience with its presenter, Jenni Murray.

To encourage her readers to write in about difficult issues, she referred to "the most painful chapter of my life" when her father was "imprisoned for living off immoral earnings"[27] "after pleading guilty to keeping brothels with a turnover of more than £2.5m".

[33] In the following month, one hundred public figures signed an open letter to the BBC criticising what they called Barnett's "strikingly hostile" interview of Zara Mohammed, the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain.

[34][35] In June 2021, Sinéad O'Connor complained about how Barnett had questioned her about her mental health during a Woman's Hour interview.

[37] In this role, she has interviewed prominent figures including Al Sharpton, Anthony Fauci and Tim Berners Lee.

[42] Barnett met her husband, Jeremy Weil, when they were studying at Nottingham University and married at the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater in 2012.