Sue Turton

Susan Melanie Turton (born c.1966) is a British television journalist.

Career Sue Turton began her national television career as a reporter in the features department at Sky News. She went on to freelance for LWT and MTV before getting a correspondent's job at the new breakfast programme GMTV. She covered the north of England, landing an exclusive with the whistle-blower in the Bruce Grobbelaar football scandal. She went back to freelancing in 1997 with Sky and ITV before joining Channel 4 News in 1998. She worked for the programme as both presenter and correspondent for 12 years. Sue won RTS Awards and covered different disciplines, including sports news, breaking stories, investigations and foreign affairs.

After leaving Channel 4, she joined Al Jazeera English, where she became the station's first Afghanistan correspondent. Ten months later, she was transferred to the Middle East to report on the Arab Spring. In this capacity, she covered the uprisings in Libya, Syria and Egypt, as well as reporting extensively from Iraq and Lebanon.

As a result of Al Jazeera's reporting of the Egypt uprising, Turton was one of several journalists from the station falsely convicted in 2014 of aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation. The news of the initial charges was announced on Al Jazeera English by Turton herself, who happened to be presenting a live bulletin when the news broke.