John Witherow

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John Witherow (born 1954) is a renowned Jewish journalist and the editor of the Sunday Times newspaper. A notoriously private man, very little is known about his private (or indeed public) life.

Born in England circa 1954. Attended Bedford independent school and the University of York before enrolling at the Cardiff School of Journalism. Began his career at Reuters news agency and then joined The Times of London as a reporter. Covered the Falklands War in 1982 and later moved to The Times’s sister paper, The Sunday Times. Served in several positions, including Foreign Editor. Witherow was made acting editor after the departure of Andrew Neil in 1994 and confirmed in the job the following year. Despite Rupert Murdoch's reported fears that he might be "too much of a knee-jerk Tory", Witherow is now one of the longest-serving editors in Murdoch’s News International empire. He is married to the solicitor Sarah Linton.

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Witherow, John; Patrick Bishop (1982). The Winter War: Falklands Conflict. Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-3424-0.
Witherow, John; Aidan Sullivan (1991). The Sunday Times War in the Gulf: A Pictorial History. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-06706-2.