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 three seasons of the BBC One prime time undercover thriller ‘In Deep’ starring Nick Berry and Stephen Tompkinson and two 90-minute film length episodes of the BBC One series ‘The Inspector Lynley Mysteries’. He and Ed Whitmore also wrote the second series of the paranormal/science thriller ‘Sea of Souls’ which won the 2005 BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Drama and Peter’s opening episode of the third season of ‘Holby City’ was described by The Guardian as the "televisual equivalent of Crack Cocaine."
My account of living in the modern city, ‘A Shout in the Street’ (Faber & Faber, 1990) was called ‘a dream of a book’ by John Berger and he is the author of ‘The Fall of the House of Murdoch’, published by Unbound, a crowd-funded publisher, in August 2012.
Since then Peter Jukes has also become one of the UK’s most authoritative commentators on the News International phone hacking scandal and the Leveson inquiry through his TV appearances and regular columns on the ‘Daily Beast’ website and in ‘Newsweek’. He has written regularly investigative reports, features, profiles, interviews and commentary for the ‘Independent’, ‘New Statesman’, ‘Prospect magazine’, The New Republic, Exaro and Aeon Magazine.
He is a member of the Writers Guild of America (West) and the National Union of Journalists
