Martin Brunt
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Martin Edward Brunt (born Camberley, Surrey, England, on 5 February 1955) is crime correspondent for Sky News. He joined the channel at its launch in 1989.[1]
Education
Brunt was educated at
Life and career
After leaving the London College of Printing, Brunt first joined the editorial staff of Power Laundry and Cleaning News, owned by the International Publishing Corporation (
From there he was taken on as a junior reporter with the Chatham News and Chatham Standard newspapers in Kent and after training under editor Gerald Hinks left to join a news agency in Devon, followed by the Ferrari Agency in Dartford, Kent. From there he moved to the Sunday Mirror and became chief reporter before being asked to join Sky News.
Early exclusive coverage included the Iraqis' retreat from Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
Brunt reported from South Africa on the murder inquiry into "Adam", an unknown boy whose torso was found in the River Thames in 2001.
He has a reputation for gaining insider information: Hugo Rifkind reported in The Times diary of 22 December 2006:
- "High praise for the Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt. When a hack from (another) newspaper phoned Suffolk Police press office with a query on the serial killer case, he was told: 'Call Martin Brunt. He knows everything before we do.' A little concerning."
Brunt was the first to report the arrest of
In October 2014, Brunt was the journalist involved in revealing the identity of Brenda Leyland, who had posted comments concerning the
Brunt briefly became an internet sensation in August 2016, for a Sky news report at St James Church in
Bibliography
- No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason Dispatches from a Crime Reporter (London: Biteback Publishing, 2023) ISBN 9781785907784
References
- ^ a b Sky News Press Office. Martin Brunt Biography[permanent dead link]
- ^ A Reporter's Memories of Soham Sky News. Created: 17 December 2003. Created: 28 November 2011.
- ^ "McCann 'Twitter troll' found dead in hotel". BBC. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ Tara Conlan (6 October 2014). "Facebook group urges Sky reporter's sacking after death of alleged troll". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Sky News' Martin Brunt Channels Alan Partridge in Bizarre Terror Report". 29 July 2016.