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Daniel Johnson (journalist)
British journalist, commentator and author (born )
Daniel Benedict Johnson (born 26 August ) is a British journalist and author who was the founding editor of Standpoint magazine.[1][2] Since , he has been founding editor of the online journalism platform TheArticle, an associate editor of The Critic magazine and commentator for The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, and The Daily Telegraph.
Paul johnson wiki Although associated with the political left in his early career, he became a popular conservative historian. Johnson was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College , and at Magdalen College, Oxford , where he studied history. A prolific writer, Johnson wrote more than 50 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. Johnson was born in Manchester. At Stonyhurst College , Johnson received an education grounded in the Jesuit method, [ 3 ] which he preferred over the more secularised curriculum of Oxford.Biography
Daniel Johnson is the son of the author Paul Johnson and brother of Cosmos Johnson, Sophie Johnson-Clark and entrepreneur Luke Johnson.[3]
After attending Langley Grammar School he graduated with a First in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford, and then studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge for three years from to Johnson was awarded a Shakespeare Scholarship to Berlin.
Returning to English academia as a fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, he served as Director of Publications for the Centre for Policy Studies.
Johnson covered the fall of the Berlin Wall as German correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and has worked as a leader writer for both The Times and The Telegraph, as well as literary editor and associate editor for The Times.[4] On 9 November, , Johnson attended an East German Government press conference on loosening of travel restrictions for East Germans, and asked the final question: "What will happen to the Berlin Wall now?" His question and Minister Schabowski's response is shown nightly in a video displayed every evening to tourists at the Deutsche Bundestag building in Berlin.[citation needed]
In , he launched Standpoint magazine as founding editor.
He stepped down in December [5] He was also a contributing editor to The New York Sun and a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The Literary Review, Prospect, Commentary, and The New Criterion,[6] as well as The American Spectator and The Weekly Standard.[citation needed] Allegations were published in the January 9, issue of The New York Sun, written by Johnson about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and Kenya's candidate (and subsequent Prime Minister) Raila Odinga, based on what was later described as "a patently fallacious story or at the very least to shirk their responsibility to the truth."[7][8]
In , Johnson became the founding editor of a new political opinion website, TheArticle.[9]
He is Catholic and is married with four children.
He has participated in an Oxford Union debate arguing that Islam is not a religion of peace.[10]
Bibliography
- German Neo-Liberals and the Social Market Economy
- Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and other stories
- White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard
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