Emma Jones is a Welsh

Wales

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 journalist

Journalist

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Educated at Mold Alun School. She joined the Evening Leader

Evening Leader

Evening Leader is the name of several newspapers. It may refer to:*Chester Evening Leader*Wrexham Evening Leader*Flintshire Evening Leader...

newspaper in her home town of Mold, Flintshire

Mold, Flintshire

Mold is a town in Flintshire, North Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council, and was also the county town of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996...

. Asked to cover the Llangollen

Llangollen

Llangollen is a small town and community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, situated on the River Dee and on the edge of the Berwyn mountains. It has a population of 3,412.-History:...

 International Eisteddfod

International Eisteddfod

The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is a music festival which takes place every year during the second week of July in Llangollen, North Wales. Singers and dancers from around the world are invited to take part in over 20 high quality competitions followed each evening by concerts where...

, she met violin

Violin

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ist Nigel Kennedy

Nigel Kennedy

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. She worked for Kennedy as his secretary before selling a story about him to the newspapers.

Jones worked on a variety of stories, from hard news to showbiz at the Sunday Mirror

Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Mirror. It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the Sunday Mirror in 1963. Trinity Mirror also owns The People...

, then The Mail On Sunday

The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...

and The Sun

The Sun (newspaper)

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. She worked as editor of Smash Hits

Smash Hits

Smash Hits was a pop music based magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006 and was issued fortnightly for most of that time...

magazine in 2001, but returned to The Sun in 2002 to become its youngest columnist. Jones was twice nominated for the UK Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year Award, and the then editor of The Sun David Yelland

David Yelland

David Yelland is a British writer, a former journalist and editor of The Sun and a partner at Brunswick Group LLP, a global financial public relations and communications company in London...

 described her as "the brightest young female voice in Britain". Yelland's successor as editor, Rebekah Brooks did not rate Jones, sacking her on her first day in the editor's chair.

Broadcast media

Jones was a regular contributor to radio and TV, co-presenting the National TV Awards for ITV2

ITV2

ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...

 with Tess Daly

Tess Daly

Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly is an English television presenter. She is married to the presenter Vernon Kay.-Early life:Daly was born in Derbyshire to Vivian , who died of emphysema, and Sylvia Daly...

  although her appearance on Question Time

Question Time

Question time in a parliament occurs when members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers , which they are obliged to answer. It usually occurs daily while parliament is sitting, though it can be cancelled in exceptional circumstances...

was not a success. Among other howlers, she confused the CIA with the CID and said that she hoped New Labour would "concentrate more on style over substance". One newspaper website described it as "not so much car-crash TV as a 24-car pile up".

External links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/halloffame/showbiz/emma_jones.shtml