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Name
  
Peter Wright

Role
  
Editor


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Nominations
  
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction

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Technology as Experience, Spycatcher, Attending Daedalus, Model Engineering: A Founda, Hermann Potzlinger's Music Bo

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John McCarthy, Gene Wolfe, Paul Greengrass

Education
  
Clare College, Cambridge

Peter Wright (born 13 Aug 1953) is a British newspaper editor.

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Wright attended Clare College, Cambridge, then took a graduate trainee position with Thomson Regional Newspapers, working as a reporter on the Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo. In 1979, he moved to the Daily Mail, working on various desks before becoming Femail Editor, then Features Editor and Deputy Editor.

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In 1998, he became editor of the Mail on Sunday. While at the Mail on Sunday, Wright initiated the giveaway of promotional CDs and DVDs, including the global first release of Prince's Planet Earth album. He also served on the Press Complaints Commission. In March 2012, Wright moved to become Editor Emeritus for all Associated Newspapers titles. In that role he was one of the group of four newspaper industry representatives who negotiated with the Government over Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin's proposal for regulation of the British press to be overseen by a Royal Charter, and was the author of the industry's rival Royal Charter proposal [1].

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Phone Hacking

In August 2014, Roy Greenslade, a supporter of Hacked Off [2], a group which campaigns to place Britain's press under state-approved regulation, alleged in the Guardian newspaper [3] that Wright withheld important evidence from the Press Complaints Commission when it held its 2009 inquiry into the News_of_the_World_phone_hacking_affair. Specifically, he claimed Wright had withheld from the PCC information that The Mail on Sunday had been told by police four of their journalists had had their voicemail messages intercepted by the News of the World, and this would have provided the PCC with evidence that phone-hacking at the News of the World extended beyond 'rogue reporter' Clive Goodman.

Wright refuted this claim in a letter to the Guardian [4] in which he said when the police contacted The Mail on Sunday, a month before Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's 2006 trial, they gave no indication that anyone else at the News of The World was involved. He said: 'Had it occurred to me, when the PCC was discussing the fresh allegations made by the Guardian in July 2009, that the hacking of our journalists’ phones was anything other than a minor part of the series of offences for which Goodman and Mulcaire had already been convicted, I would happily have shared it with other commissioners. I have never made any secret of it, nor had any reason to – after all, our journalists were victims of these crimes just as much as anyone else.'

References

Peter Wright (journalist) Wikipedia