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Thomas Zoltan Newton Dunn (born 16 December 1973), known as Tom Newton Dunn, is an English broadcast journalist and former newspaper journalist. he presents The News Desk, an evening news programme on talkTV. He was the
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of '' The Sun'' from 2009 to 2020, having previously worked for ten years as a defence journalist and foreign reporter. In 2020 he became chief political commentator at
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, before stepping down to join talkTV. Prior to joining Times Radio, Newton Dunn regularly appeared on the
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and Sky News, and was one of the hosts of
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's '' Week in Westminster''. He also appeared on the former ''
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''.


Early life and family

Newton Dunn was born in St Pancras, London, to Bill Newton Dunn, a
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and later
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, and his Hungarian-born wife Anna Arki. He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire and the
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, receiving an MA Honours degree in English Literature. Between 2005 and 2014, his mother ran the European Movement Speaker Service, which provided "Pro Europe speakers for educational establishments and civic societies to debate all aspects of Britain's membership of the EU". His father, who was a strong supporter of the UK adopting the Euro currency, defected from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats in 2000 due to the Conservatives'
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.


Career

Newton Dunn joined ''
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'' as a diary reporter for the Peterborough column in 1996, moving to the ''
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'' to join its graduate trainee scheme the following year. He spent several years (1999–2001) with the ''Mirror'' as a news reporter, before being made the paper's defence correspondent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and covering the
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and
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s. In 2004, he moved to '' The Sun'' as the paper's defence editor. He was promoted to the role of political editor there in 2009, although it was intended for him to remain involved in the title's defence coverage. During his time at '' The Sun'', he was a broadcast commentator on politics, appearing on BBC Two's ''Sunday Politics'' programme, and occasionally hosting
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's ''The Week in Westminster''. Newton Dunn has also been a panellist on ''
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'', and reviewed the papers on Sky News. Before the programme's demise he sometimes hosted ''
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''. It is reported that in 2017 when because of her mobility problems the Queen decided to watch the Remembrance Day ceremony from the balcony of the FCO, that Newton Dunn tweeted that “it is the duty of the Queen to attend even if she has to crawl there.” After being rebuked by Sir Alan Duncan, the tweet was deleted. Newton Dunn left ''The Sun'' to become a presenter and chief political commentator at the newly-formed
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in summer 2020. He was replaced as political editor by Harry Cole. In March 2021 Newton Dunn briefly began writing a weekly political column for the ''
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'' in the slot left vacant by the departure of editor-in-chief
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. He moved to talkTV ahead of its launch, presenting an hour-long weekday news update called The News Desk . The programme was switched from its original 7pm timeslot to 10pm and renamed First Edition after only reaching small audiences. He secured the first interview with former chancellor
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following the collapse of Liz Truss' government.


Awards

Newton Dunn won the Scoop of the Year award at the 2008
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for revealing the cockpit tapes behind the Matty Hull friendly fire incident. He also won Scoop of the Year for the Matty Hull friendly fire incident story at the 2007 ''What The Papers Say Awards''. In 2015, he won the Politics Journalism award at the annual British Journalism Awards for revealing the
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scandal, which was successfully defended from a libel suit brought by Conservative MP and former Government Chief Whip
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. He was threatened with arrest by the police if he didn't reveal his sources for Plebgate and did not do so.


Far-right conspiracy incident

In December 2019, Newton Dunn wrote an article for ''The Sun'' titled HIJACKED LABOUR, in which he reported that former British intelligence officers had produced a chart alleging that "
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is at the centre of an extraordinary network of hard-left extremists". It later emerged that the ultimate sources for these claims included the antisemitic, far-right websites Aryan Unity and the Millennium Report, the latter described by ''Vice'' as "an antisemitic conspiracy site known for publishing articles with titles like, 'The Jewish Hand in World Wars. The 'HIJACKED LABOUR' thesis was described as a "far-right conspiracy theory" by Daniel Trilling in ''
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''. The
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magazines ''Tribune'' and '' Jacobin'' argued that such articles were a danger to journalists and those on the political left, with ''Jacobin'' calling the chart a "hit list". Newton Dunn's article was deleted on the same day of its publication, without comment from him or his newspaper. The
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subsequently confirmed to ''The Guardian'' that it had received a complaint concerning the piece, and Peter Geoghegan of ''
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'' expressed his strong concern at his organisation being named as part of this alleged network. In February 2020, IPSO responded to the complaint and "decided that it idnot raise a possible breach of the Editors' Code".


Publications

Newton Dunn has ghost-written two non-fiction books by military veterans: *''Sniper One'' (2006) by Sgt. Dan Mills – *''Apache'' (2008) by Ed Macy –


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Newton Dunn, Tom 1973 births Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh English journalists People educated at Marlborough College The Sun (United Kingdom) people English people of Hungarian descent English broadcasters People from St Pancras, London