Gary Jones

Gary Jones is a British journalist who was editor of the Daily Express from March 2018 until September 2024. Earlier in his career he was on the staff of the News of the World, The Sunday People and the Daily Mirror. From 2016 to 2018. Jones was the Editor of the Sunday Mirror and The Sunday People.

Early life Jones is the son of Conservative Party-supporting lifelong Daily Express-reading parents. Later, at the Daily Mirror (Morgan was editor), Jones was one of "three key media contacts" for Southern Investigations, a private detective agency whose investigator Jonathan Rees is said to have "set up network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable information". Rees was recorded by police telling Jones "that some of what he was doing for the Mirror was illegal". He moved to The People in November 2007, becoming deputy editor in June 2008. and later editor. After a period as acting editor, he also became editor of the Sunday Mirror in May 2016.

In March 2018 Jones was named as the new editor of the Express after it was sold by Northern & Shell to Trinity Mirror (now Reach plc). On taking on the role Jones admitted in an interview with The Guardian that the title's past troubled him. "I just couldn't sleep. People had collated every front page which was anti-immigrant. It was certainly Islamophobic. This was not representative of the kind of society I think we should be."

Since his appointment, Jones has placed an emphasis on campaigning journalism and investigative news stories, "regained that campaigning investigative zeal that has always been attached to the name".

In December 2020, The Express won the British Journalism Award for Campaign Journalism after the 18-month-long Time To End Cystic Fibrosis Drug Scandal campaign successfully fought for a life-saving deal between US pharmaceuticals firm Vertex and the NHS. The paper also ran a two year domestic abuse campaign which resulted in a change in law in April 2021; with an overhaul of the family courts system, putting extra safeguards in place to protect abuse victims.

Personal life Gary Jones' son, Monty Jones, was a chorister at Westminster Abbey Choir School before being accepted to Eton College.

Jones is a trustee of the St Giles Trust, a charity that helps the disadvantaged and vulnerable.