Journalism Randall worked as Assistant Editor of
Financial Weekly, then between 1986 and 1988 as
City correspondent for the
Sunday Telegraph. From 1989 to 1994 he was City editor of
The Sunday Times, becoming City and Business Editor 1994–95, as well as a Director of Times Newspapers. He was also a director of a City PR firm. He then became assistant editor and sports editor of the
Sunday Times. Randall also told of an occasion where he complained to a senior news executive about the BBC's pro-multicultural stance. In a reply he was told "The BBC is not neutral in multiculturalism: it believes in it and it promotes it". He further criticised the bias of the BBC, stating that working at the BBC was "bit like walking into a Sunday meeting of the Flat Earth Society. As they discuss great issues of the day, they discuss them from the point of view that the earth is flat. If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist."
Jeff Randall Live While working as the Daily Telegraph's editor-at-large, Randall began broadcasting for
Sky News in September 2007, presenting the business show
Jeff Randall Live. The programme began on a weekly basis, airing on Monday evenings at 19:30, At that time the world was experiencing an economic downturn, and in a trailer for the show, Randall claimed that the downturn was like nothing he had seen in 25 years of business journalism, and ends with the line "What would I do if I were in government? I'd resign!" In early 2010,
Jeff Randall Live moved to a custom-built studio in the
City of London in the building called
The Gherkin, where the show continued to be broadcast four nights a week. In February 2014, it was announced that Randall was to leave Sky News to be replaced by
The Times's business and city editor
Ian King. Randall presented his last show for Sky News on Thursday 27 March 2014.
Other activities Randall is a visiting fellow at
Oxford University's business school, and has been awarded honorary doctorates of letters by
Anglia Ruskin University (2001), the
University of Nottingham (2006) and
BPP University College (2011). He is also the twenty-ninth member of the University of Nottingham College of Benefactors, into which he was inducted in July 2010. He is an honorary professor at Nottingham University's Business School. Since April 2014, when he retired from journalism, he has been a non-executive director of
Babcock International, where he chairs the remuneration committee, and a director of
Sandown Park Racecourse. In July 2017 he became an independent non-executive at
BDO, the accountancy firm. In 2023, he became non-executive chairman of Woburn Partners, a London-based communications company. ==Opinions==