Graham Johnson

Graham Johnson (born 4 May 1968) is an author and investigative journalist from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He has written for several news organisation and the since the 2000s has written both non-fiction and fiction books. His works focuses largely crime, especially organised crime. Johnson has made documentary films and appeared on television as a crime pundit.

Biography Between 1995 and 1997, Johnson worked at the News of the World. He had a notorious scoop about the Beast of Bodmin Moor at the paper.

Johnson worked at the Sunday Mirror from 1997 to 2005 and for six years was the newspaper's Investigations Editor.

In 2012, Johnson's book Hack was published, about his life as a tabloid journalist. In it he claims the story alleging Arthur C. Clarke purchased sex from underaged boys in Sri Lanka was dropped by News of the World; so as not to upset its owner Rupert Murdoch.

In 2014, he "blew the whistle" regarding phone hacking at the Sunday Mirror, describing his own involvement as "short and intense". Johnson, who was "shown by a senior person in a supervisory capacity how to access voicemails", was given "great credit" by District judge Quentin Purdy for his confession. His defence asserted that Johnson was unaware that such hacking was illegal, and that he "discontinued... because he did not feel it was right". Judge Brian Barker gave Johnson a suspended sentence but was convinced of his remorse, and noted that he had been "directed by others".

Writing and appearances Johnson has written for publications including the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror, The Observer, Vice, The Guardian and the Liverpool Echo, and often publishes crime stories under different bylines.

Johnson has covered stories including drug dealing in Britain,

He was shortlisted for Reporter of the Year at the 2005 British Press Awards.