Dominic Mohan is a British

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 journalist and newspaper editor.

He is the Editor of The Sun

The Sun (newspaper)

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newspaper in London

London

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. He joined The Sun in 1996 working on the "Bizarre" column. Mohan was appointed deputy editor of The Sun in 2007 by Rebekah Brooks and was named as her replacement in 2009 following Brooks' promotion to chief executive of News International

News International

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.

Mohan conceived the idea of re-recording Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?

Do They Know It's Christmas?

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" in 2004, for which he received the Hugh Cudlipp Award at the British Press Awards

British Press Awards

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 in 2005. He was instrumental in the Live 8

Live 8

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 concert which followed. He was also a Virgin Radio DJ, winning a Sony Gold Award in 2003 for "The Who Special".

Although born in Bristol, his family moved to Cambridgeshire when he was 10 years old. He attended the Cromwell Community College (in Chatteris

Chatteris

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) and the Neale Wade Community College before graduating from Southampton University in English. While studying for his degree he wrote for and then edited The Wessex News (now Wessex Scene

Wessex Scene

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), the Southampton University student newspaper.