Michael Toner (journalist)

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Michael Toner (born 1944) is a British journalist. He was political editor, diplomatic correspondent and leader writer at the Sunday Express , [1] [2] chief leader writer on the Daily Mail until 2006, [3] a political author [4] and novelist. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

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Life and career

Toner was born in Bedfordshire in 1944 [15] and educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of Cambridge. [8] [16] He began his career in journalism at the Stoke Sentinel before moving to the Sunday Express [17] where, in 1981, he interviewed Margaret Thatcher with fellow Express journalist Keith Renshaw. [18] [19] [20] He became leader writer of the Sunday Express [1] [2] where he covered many of the controversial topics of the 1980s and 1990s including articles about the IRA, Britain Fumes at US Over I.R.A. Guns, [21] the miners' strike, [22] the Falklands War, [23] child abuse [24] and the war crime allegations involving Kurt Waldheim. [25] David Alton described Toner's approach to Alton's anti-abortion bill as "thorough and fair". [26]

Following his period at the Sunday Express , Toner became Chief Leader Writer at the Daily Mail , a position he held until 2006 when Tom Utley succeeded him to the role. [3]

Toner's first published work, The Bluffer's Guide To The EU, has run to several editions encapsulating the changing nomenclature of that institution. [4] [27] [28] [29] He published his first novel, Seeing the Light, in 1997. [30] [31] [32]

Works

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  2. 1 2 Regulating The Press . 2000. p.  162 . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Media Lens :: View topic – Leader writers in the UK press". medialens.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 Bluff your way in the European Community. worldcat.org. OCLC   29518354 . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Toner, Michael". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  6. ↑ BROADCASTING - CHRISTMAS CARD LIST, Anglia Television Limited, 8 November 1982, p. 12
  7. 1 2 Seeing the Light . Simon & Schuster. 1997. Retrieved 3 May 2015– via Internet Archive.
  8. 1 2 School of the Black & Red, A History of Bedford Modern School, A.G. Underwood (1981)
  9. ↑ Rose, Jacqueline (1993). The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction. ISBN   0812214358 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Benn's Press Directory. 1978. ISBN   9780510490287 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Regulating The Press . Pluto Press. 2000. p.  162 . Retrieved 2 June 2015– via Internet Archive.
  12. ↑ Waddington, David (26 July 2012). David Waddington Memoirs. ISBN   9781849544573 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  13. ↑ "Vacher's Parliamentary Companion". 1984. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  14. ↑ Freeman, Michael D. A. (28 August 1997). The Moral Status of Children. ISBN   9041103775 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  15. ↑ England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916–2005
  16. ↑ Toner, Michael; White, Christopher (1988). Bluff Your Way in the EEC. ISBN   9781853040993 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  17. ↑ "Way We Were: Roger Jones and his recollections of The Sentinel newspaper in Stoke-on-Trent". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  18. ↑ "Interview for Sunday Express". margaretthatcher.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  19. ↑ Tatchell, Peter (1983). The Battle for Bermondsey. ISBN   9780946097111 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  20. ↑ Farr, Diana; Pullein-Thompson, Diana (1985). Five at 10. ISBN   9780233977331 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  21. ↑ Irish-America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968–1995 . Catholic University of Amer Press. 1995. Retrieved 2 June 2015– via Internet Archive. michael toner sunday express.
  22. ↑ "IRIS News". 1985. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  23. ↑ "The Sydney Morning Herald – Google News Archive Search" . Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  24. ↑ Ericson, Richard Victor (1995). Crime and the media. ISBN   9781855214330 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  25. ↑ Saltman, Jack (1988). Kurt Waldheim. ISBN   9780860515166 . Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  26. ↑ David Alton. "ISSUU – Whose Choice Anyway by David Alton". Issuu. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  27. ↑ Bluff your way in the EEC. worldcat.org. OCLC   26633012 . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  28. 1 2 The bluffer's guide to the E.U. worldcat.org. OCLC   42954302 . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  29. ↑ "315041383". viaf.org. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  30. 1 2 Seeing the light. worldcat.org. OCLC   37322166 . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  31. ↑ "Toner, Michael". loc.gov. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  32. ↑ "Books: A week in books". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  33. ↑ Toner, Michael; White, Christopher; Rotherham, Lee (1999). The Bluffer's Guide to the E.U. ISBN   9781902825113 . Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  34. ↑ "Bluff Your Way in the City (The Bluffer's City Collection)". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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