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John Sturgis

John Sturgis is a freelance journalist who has worked across Fleet Street for almost 30 years as both reporter and news editor.

The myth of UK tabloid newspapers and ‘kompromat’

Have tabloid newspapers ever kept secret files for future blackmail purposes?

By John Sturgis

The myth of UK tabloid newspapers and ‘kompromat’

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Court artists and ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial: Case for the defence

It has brought the nation together, uniting seemingly bitterly opposed factions in common delight, almost as if we’d won…

By John Sturgis

After Life’s Tony: The only local reporter in England with a £1m house and his own photographer

Unrealistic portrayals of news gathering in fiction aren’t news. In fact so commonplace are they that it would be…

By John Sturgis

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