Lucy Johnston

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Lucy Johnston (born 1969) is an English journalist, currently a health editor of Sunday Express, and formerly a staff reporter and investigative journalist for The Observer >.

Johnston was a member of the original editorial team of The Big Issue in 1992. He has become famous for his investigative articles on drug culture in London, deaths in police custody, animal research, and the pharmaceutical industry, and for his campaign for improve the provision of health services for elderly and mentally ill.

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Education and career

Johnston was educated at Culford School in Bury St Edmunds. He moved to London in 1992 to work as a volunteer for The Big Issue, becoming a reporter with an original newspaper editorial team, before working on a news editor, then an assistant editor. He was known from then until 1996 for several parts of the investigation, including deaths in police custody and street drugs in London.

Tessa Swithinbank writes that Johnston was hunted by The Observer in 1996 as a result of her ability to work with the types of sources accessible to some journalists. After several years with The Observer as a staff reporter, he joined the investigation team of the Sunday Express in 2001, then became a health editor. He has conducted an undercover investigation for newspapers, including one in 2001 where he took a job as a nursing assistant at Lynde House, a nursing home owned by Westminster Health Care, headed by Chai Patel. The story is very critical of the care received by the elderly; Patel, at that time a government adviser on the care of parents, then sold the company and resigned from his government post. He has also campaigned on Express to highlight the care of people with mental health problems, and has written articles that defy the requirement that pensioners pay for medical care while in a nursing home.

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Reception

Johnston won an award in 1998 from the Natali Award for Journalism, granted by the International Federation of Journalists, for "Behind the animal kingdom," an article in The Observer about the conflict on land rights in northern Tanzania between the Maasai and the establishment of Mkomazi National Park, a conservation area for animals.

In 2001 he and a colleague, Jonathan Calvert, won the Genesis Award from the Humane Society of United States for the Daily Express article, "The terrible despair of animals cut in the name of the study," on experimental xenotransplantation performed by Imutran and Huntingdon Life Sciences. Johnston was elected that year for the "Journalist of the Year" award by Mind, the mental health charity, and in 2012, Sunday Express won the "Make Different Mind" for "Crusade for a Better" "Mental Health Campaign, with Johnston and a colleague, Ted Jeory, is highlighted in the quote.

An article by Johnston at the critical Sunday Express to the cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix, was the subject of a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission in 2009. The paper published correction and apology.

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Selected works

• "People are dying in police custody," The Big Issue , No. 151, October 9, 1995.
• "Attacked, robbed, stoned, abused: The Big Issue seller runs a challenge," The Observer , January 3, 1996.
• "Blocked from the kingdom of the beast," The Observer , April 6, 1997.
• with John Sweeney et al . "'Get rid of the princes from Diana's destiny'", The Observer , September 7, 1997.
• "Hanif and the Sprowed Woman," The Observer , May 10, 1998.
• "The fruit peasants face the last crisis", The Observer , January 10, 1999.
• with Jonathan Calvert. "The horrible despair of the cut animals on behalf of the research," Daily Express , September 21, 2000 (archived).
• "Pet Food Cruelty Exposed," Sunday Express , May 27, 2001 (archived).
• "The secret evidence that could save Sally Clark", Sunday Express , July 8, 2007.
• "One person dies every hour from superbug", Sunday Express , April 27, 2008.
• "NHS whistleblower: 'Bad surgeon causes death'", Sunday Express , June 21, 2009.
• "UK Famine", Sunday Express , November 27, 2011.

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Also see

• Genesis Award Winner 2001

Reference

Further reading

• Articles by Lucy Johnston, Sunday Express .

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