Peter Jukes

Notable work and positions

Byline Times — Co-Founder and Executive Editor
Byline.com — Advisor and columnist (2014– )
Author, The Fall of the House of Murdoch (Unbound, 2012)
Television writer — BBC's In Deep, Waking the Dead, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Biography

Peter Jukes is a British journalist, author, screenwriter, and playwright who came to investigative journalism in middle age after an earlier career in television and theater. Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, he began his career writing prime-time British television drama, including the BBC One thriller In Deep, episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and the opening episode of the Emmy-winning series Waking the Dead. Jukes turned to journalism in 2013–2014, when he live-tweeted the phone-hacking trial of former News of the World editors at London's Old Bailey — reporting later collected into his book The Fall of the House of Murdoch — and was named best reporter on social media by the Press Gazette. He is credited by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins with suggesting the name of that investigative outlet, and he worked with the Observer's Carole Cadwalladr to reveal contacts between the Brexit donor Arron Banks and the Russian Embassy. In 2018, Jukes co-founded Byline Times with Stephen Colegrave, growing it from a crowdfunded website into a monthly print newspaper with tens of thousands of subscribers; he serves as its co-founder and executive editor. Jukes also hosts and produces investigative podcasts, including Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder and, with Cadwalladr, Dial M for Mueller.

Career highlights

• The Fall of the House of Murdoch Unbound, 2012 · An account of the phone-hacking trial and the scandal's implications for Rupert Murdoch's British media empire.
• A Shout in the Street Faber & Faber · A study of London, Paris, and Leningrad and the culture of urban modernity.
• Byline Times Co-founded 2018 · A reader-funded British newspaper and website focused on stories underplayed by the mainstream press, covering topics including Cambridge Analytica, Brexit-era political funding, and disinformation.