Name Daniel Johnson Role Journalist | Parents Paul Johnson | |
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Grandparents Anne Johnson, William Aloysius Johnson Books White King and Red Queen, How To Raise Horses, The Pillars of Balam, Cycles of Turmoil, Égalité ou indepéndance Profiles | ||
Daniel Benedict Johnson (born 26 August 1957) is a British journalist who is the founding editor of Standpoint.
Biography
Daniel Johnson is the son of the author and Presidential Medal of Freedom holder Paul Johnson and brother of Cosmo Johnson and entrepreneur Luke Johnson.
After attending Langley Grammar School he graduated with a First in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson was awarded a Shakespeare Scholarship to Berlin. Returning to English academia as a fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, he served as Director of Publications for the Centre for Policy Studies.
Johnson made his name as a journalist covering the fall of the Berlin Wall as German correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He has been a leader writer for both The Times and the Telegraph, as well as literary editor and associate editor for The Times.
In 2008 he launched Standpoint magazine as founding editor. He was also a contributing editor to The New York Sun and a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The Literary Review, Prospect, Commentary, and The New Criterion, as well as The American Spectator and The Weekly Standard.
He is Catholic, and is married with four children.