[2] In April 1995, while at the News of the World when Piers Morgan was editor, Jones was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.
[3] Later, at the Daily Mirror (Morgan was editor), Jones was one of "three key media contacts" for Southern Investigations, a private detective agency whose investigator Jonathan Rees is said to have "set up [a] network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable information".
[4] While Jones was investigations editor at the Mirror in December 1999, the paper published detailed extracts from the medical records of Ian Brady, having paid an intermediary £1,500.
[7] In March 2018 Jones was named as the new editor of the Express after it was sold by Northern & Shell to Trinity Mirror (now Reach plc).
"[2] In an interview with The Guardian’s Media editor, Jones said that in his first morning news meeting he gave an instruction to staff on the spot: “I’m not going to be doing an anti-immigrant story.
And they published a report actually not long into my tenure that kind of said look, they noted the Express had changed – and that was really important to me…"[8] Since his appointment, Jones has placed an emphasis on campaigning journalism and investigative news stories, "regained that campaigning investigative zeal that has always been attached to the name".
The title launched a change.org petition asking people to urge the government to create a Zero 4 Zero policy to boost the tax system by scrapping VAT on low or zero carbon products.