James Waterson (born March 1989) is an English journalist who was the media editor of The Guardian.

Previously he was political editor of BuzzFeed UK, and prior to that worked for City AM[1] Waterson was born in York.

[5] Waterson interned at Guido Fawkes, The Independent, and The Observer before landing his first job covering politics and business on City A.M.[6][7][8] While at City A.M. he fried an egg on a street using reflected heat from the 20 Fenchurch Street skyscraper.

[9] He was BuzzFeed News' UK political editor from 2013, before joining The Guardian in 2018.

[10][11] He has presented Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4,[12] and appeared on Moral Maze in February 2017.