Julia Hartley-Brewer (born 2 May 1968) is an English broadcaster and columnist. She presented the weekday afternoon radio show from 1pm to 4pm on talk radio station LBC until 19 December 2014.
Born in Birmingham, the daughter of a general practitioner, she was educated at Oldfield School in Bath, Somerset, and Woodhouse Sixth Form College in Finchley, north London. Hartley-Brewer studied PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then at the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff.
Hartley-Brewer began her career in journalism at the East London Advertiser in Bethnal Green. Later she worked as a news reporter and political correspondent for the London Evening Standard and then joined The Guardian, working at the latter until September 2000. She then moved to the Sunday Express as Political Correspondent, becoming Political Editor from 2001 until 2007 and then Assistant Editor (Politics), also writing a weekly opinion column. She left the Sunday Express in February 2011.