What the Papers Don't Say

Peter Jukes is a playwright, screenwriter and journalist. For twenty years he worked as a TV dramatist, devising and writing for shows such as In Deep, Waking the Dead, Sea of Souls and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. In 2015 he turned to journalism with his book The Fall of the House of Murdoch, an account of the phone hacking scandal at News of the World, and he later won awards for live tweeting the whole eight month trial. His account of the most investigated murder in British history, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, became a No 1 iTunes podcast. A regular reporter with the Daily Beast, he has written for the New York Times, the New Republic, the Guardian and the Observer. With Stephen Colegrave he took over the crowd-funding journalism site Byline.com and co-founded the Byline Festival and the Byline Times.

Stephen Colegrave left school to play in punk bands before selling out to become a 1980’s porsche-driving yuppie in advertising. Spending most of the 1990’s at Saatchi & Saatchi, he became marketing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. After a stint as a movie producer (Bring Me The Head of Mavis Davis; Everybody Loves Sunshine), he escaped advertising to become a writer - Punk- A Life Apart (2001); Inside Music (2004) and a photographic curator mounting international shows with Mick Rock, Leee Black Childers, Jeanette Beckman and Bob Gruen. In 2016, Stephen joined Peter Jukes at Byline and with him co-founded Byline Festival and Byline Times.

Hardeep Matharu is a journalist and Editor of Byline Times. She has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and editor for local newspapers and the national press. After graduating in law at Cambridge University, Hardeep started work as a reporter at the Epsom Guardian. Her work there won her the ‘Feature Writer of the Year’ Award from the National Council for the Training of Journalists. She went on to work at the Independent and has been published in Mental Health Today, Reaction, and on openDemocracy.com, Politics.co.uk and TheJustice Gap.com. Bringing her experience of the dying artform of local newspapers to the Byline newsroom Hardeep’s work has focused on Brexit and identity, nationalism, race, criminal justice and threats to democracy.

Byline Times was launched into the world as a monthly national newspaper and daily news site on 29 March 2019 (the day when Brexit was meant to first happen). From the beginning it was determined not to be like other newspapers. It didn’t want to follow the crowd or say what others said. It never looked for a Press Baron sugar daddy: instead it asked thousands of friends to support it and subscribe to its monthly paper. Now it has up to 1.5 million people a month reading articles on its daily news site and many thousands of subscribers. It has attracted brilliant writers including Bonnie Greer and Musa Okwanga; journalists such as Nafeez Ahmed and Caroline Orr and some pretty funny people, like John Cleese, Kirsty Brand and Alexie Sayle. The Byline Times relishes being outside the system and is fearless in pursuing a story wherever it goes.