Early life
Susie Boniface was born in . She became interested in journalism in 1989 after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, fall of the Berlin Wall and then reading ''Bluff Your Way in Journalism'' (1988) by Nigel Foster.Career
At age of 18, Boniface became a reporter at the ''Kent and Sussex Courier''. She later worked at the ''Plymouth Herald'' as defence reporter. She then joined the ''Sunday Mirror'', where she worked for ten years, until she volunteered for redundancy in March 2012. As of 2013, she was a freelance reporter at BBC News, BBC, ''Bella (British magazine), Bella,'' the ''Daily Express'' the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Mail on Sunday,'' the ''Daily Star Sunday,'' ''The Guardian'', ''The People'', ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun, Reveal'' and the Press Association. Boniface joined the journalism department as a visiting lecturer at City, University of London in 2016. She wrote the ''Bluffer's Guides, Bluffer's Guide To Social Media'' (2015) and the ''Bluffer's Guide to Journalism'' in (2019).Awards
Boniface was nominated in the Campaign of the Year category of the 2009 British Press Awards for "British Nuclear Test Vets". She won third "must follow journo" in the 2011 The CRAPPs, CRAPPs awards as Fleet Street Fox. Fleet Street Fox won the London Press Club Blog of the Year in 2013. She was nominated for Columnist of the Year (popular press) in the 2014 Society of Editors Press Awards.Fleet Street Fox
Boniface began her first anonymous blog, now removed, in April 2009 and started tweeting as fleetstreetfox in October 2009. She started a second news-based blog as Fleet Street Fox in 2011. She revealed her name in ''The Times'' in 2013 at the same time as her book was published by Constable & Robinson, though her identity was not a closely kept secret before then; she had been named on Twitter at least once in May 2012 after an argument with Jemima Khan. Julie Burchill praised her blogging in the ''British Journalism Review'', but said of the book, "I hated it." Broadcaster Jeremy Vine described it as "the first book I've read that starts at 90mph and speeds up".References
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