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Peter Jukes

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Covers:  polish politics, films, news corp, british politics, phone hacking, monopolies, digital domain, drama, media culture, transparency, bank malpractice, soca, phone hacking trials, whistleblowers, news international, corruption of public officials, news of the world closure, jimmy savile, press complaints, daniel morgan inquiry, leveson inquiry, historic child abuse
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Peter Jukes’s Biography

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From 2013-2014 I gained some notoriety (and carpal tunnel syndrome) by both live tweeting half a million words from the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey: Britain's longest running and most expensive criminal trial. For this I was awarded the best reporter on social media award by the Press Gazette, and my blog archiving the trial was nominated one of the best three news sites in the UK by the Press Club

Before then my main career has been in TV and film. He devised and wrote most of the th…

Peter Jukes’s Journalist Portfolio

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Everyone, even Jude Law, should be able to live out their love lives in private

Everyone, even Jude Law, should be able to live out their love lives in private

He divorced his third wife, Wendi Deng, only last year, with accusations flying around she had been besotted …

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If you tweet it they will come, Peter Jukes - British Journalism Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014

If you tweet it they will come, Peter Jukes - British Journalism Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014

The man who changed the face of court reporting during the journalism trial of the century explains how he di…

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Other people's voicemail: how phone-hacking became the news

Other people's voicemail: how phone-hacking became the news

Hack Attack Nick Davies Chatto & Windus, 448pp, £20 The News Machine: Hacking - the Untold Story James Hannin…

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'Can we hack their voicemail? That's kind of how journalism worked in those days' - extract from ...

'Can we hack their voicemail? That's kind of how journalism worked in those days' - extract from ...

Peter Jukes covered every day of the eight-month hacking trial in copious detail on Twitter backed by crowdfu…

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What next for Rebekah Brooks?

What next for Rebekah Brooks?

Author Peter Jukes explores former tabloid queen Rebekah Brooks's future after the News of the World scandal.

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Rupert's Red Top: The Rise and Fall of Rebekah Brooks

Rupert's Red Top: The Rise and Fall of Rebekah Brooks

In March, midway through her set-piece cross-examination at the phone-hacking trial, as she explained her cam…

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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

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By Nafeez Ahmed, Peter Jukes Verified, Hardeep Matharu Verified
| bylinesupplement.com
In January 2026, Peter Thiel delivered four private, invite-only ‘Antichrist’ Lectures in St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University – hosted by James Orr. Photo: James Orr/X BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen With luminaries from Erasmus and Isaac Newton to Alan Turing to Stephen Hawking as alumni, Cambridge University has always framed itself as a centre of scientific advance, progress, and the Enlightenment.
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

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By Nafeez Ahmed, Peter Jukes Verified, Hardeep Matharu Verified
| Byline Times Verified
With luminaries from Erasmus and Isaac Newton to Alan Turing to Stephen Hawking, Cambridge University has always framed itself as a centre of scientific advance, progress, and the Enlightenment. It was famed for its rationalism and Puritanism, putting principle above power, compared to its great rival, Oxford, which became the royalist capital during the English Civil War. Since then, Oxford has been the traditional pipeline to national politics.
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Putin on the Ropes, Trojan Horses on Stage - and Our Future Plans

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By Peter Jukes Verified
| Substack
Over the last week, the key figures of Trojan Horses — Putin, Trump, Farage, and Johnson — are looking increasingly vulnerable. I’m not putting this down to the play reading! But at this hinge of history, the story of what happened in the First Great Information War of 2012-2020 is still deeply relevant. The reading was a bit of nailbiter for me. It’s almost a decade since I wrote a full play (the Day Release second series for Lenny Henry on Radio 4) and, to be honest.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Working for Daily Beast and Newsweek after another two careers as dramatist and critic

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Not for 25 years

How is social media changing news?

It makes journalists more responsive to the audience, and less dependent on a media hierarchy