Piers Morgan

Born

March 30, 1965 (age 61)

Known as

journalist, television presenter, diarist, presenter

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan is an English broadcaster, journalist, television personality, and writer. He began his career in 1988 at the tabloid The Sun. In 1994, at the age of 29, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century. From 1995 Morgan edited the Daily Mirror, until he was sacked in 2004, for publishing faked photographs of British soldiers inflicting brutality on Iraqi prisoners of war. He was the editorial director of First News from 2006 to 2007. In 2014, he became the first editor-at-large of the MailOnline website's American operation.

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