Education
Stratton attended Latymer Upper School in west London and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she read archaeology and anthropology.
Stratton attended Latymer Upper School in west London and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she read archaeology and anthropology.
Since January 2016, she has been National Editor of Independent Television News after four years as political editor on British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s "flagship" Newsnight. Stratton worked as a producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation, on the foreign desk at The Times and wrote for The Independent and The New Statesman. She then joined The Guardian as a political correspondent, presenting the newspaper"s "Politics Weekly" podcast with journalist Tom Clark.
Stratton interviewed a woman whom The Independent later reported to have been "fuming" because (it was asserted) the piece was edited (though not by Stratton, who was not the editor) to make her seem like a "jobless ponce" whereas she did in fact have a job.
Peter Rippon, the responsible Editor of Newsnight, later apologised in an open letter to the interviewed woman, accepting that someone could have got the false impression she was unemployed. In November 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation announced that Stratton was leaving the British Broadcasting Corporation to join the rival ITN as national editor of Independent Television News.
Stratton returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation on 20 February 2012, as political editor of Newsnight, replacing Michael Crick who left to become a political correspondent for Channel 4. There was criticism of an interview by Stratton broadcast on Newsnight on 23 May 2012.