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Full Name Thomas Newton Dunn Born 16 December 1973 (age 50) ( 1973-12-16 ) Profiles | ||
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Thomas Zoltan Newton Dunn (born 16 December 1973) is an English political journalist. Having previously worked for ten years as a defence journalist and foreign reporter, since 2009 he has been the political editor of The Sun newspaper.
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- The sun s tom newton dunn backs harvey proctor ted heath on sky press preview
- UK tabloid reporter Trump gave May a wrapped hand grenade
- Early life and family
- Career
- Awards
- Personal life
- Publications
- References
Newton Dunn also regularly appears on BBC and Sky News, and is one of the hosts of BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster and was on the now-defunct What the Papers Say.
UK tabloid reporter: Trump gave May a ‘wrapped hand grenade’
Early life and family
Newton Dunn was born in St Pancras, London to Hungarian-born Anna (née Arki) and Bill Newton Dunn, the former Conservative and then Liberal Democrat MEP for 30 years.
He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire and Edinburgh University, receiving an MA Honours degree in English Literature.
Between 2005 and 2014, his mother ran the European Movement Speaker Service, which provided "Pro Europe speakers for educational establishments and civic societies to debate all aspects of Britain's membership of the EU". His father, who was a strong supporter of the UK adopting the Euro currency, defected from the Conservatives to Liberal Democrats in 2000 due to the party's Euroscepticism.
Career
Newton Dunn joined The Daily Telegraph as a diary reporter for the Peterborough column in 1996, moving to the Daily Mirror to join their Graduate Trainee scheme the next year. He spent several years (1999–2001) with the Mirror as a news reporter, before being made the paper's defence correspondent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks covering the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
In 2004, he moved to The Sun as the paper's defence editor. He was promoted to the role of the publication's political editor in 2009, although it was intended for him to be still involved in the title's defence coverage.
He is also a regular broadcast commentator on politics, is a regular panel member of BBC2's Sunday Politics programme, hosts BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster and hosted What the Papers Say, has been a panellist on Any Questions?, and reviews the papers on Sky News.
Awards
Newton Dunn was awarded Scoop of the Year at the 2008 British Press Awards for revealing the cockpit tapes behind the Matty Hull friendly fire disaster. He also won Reporter of the Year for that and other defence stories, and collected Campaign of the Year and the Hugh Cudlipp Award for Popular Journalism on behalf of The Sun for the paper's Help For Heroes campaign.
He also won Scoop of the Year for the Matty Hull friendly fire disaster story at the 2007 What The Papers Say Awards.
In 2015, he won the Politics Journalism award at the annual British Journalism Awards for revealing the Plebgate scandal, which was successfully defended from a libel suit brought by Tory MP and former Government Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell.
Personal life
He is married with two sons and lives in London. Newton Dunn is also known to be a keen supporter and season ticket holder at Arsenal Football Club.
Publications
Newton Dunn has ghost-written two non-fiction books: