Stephen Gordon Turner (27 July 1935 – 12 May 2016) was a British journalist and trade union leader.
[1] Born in Mile End, Turner became a journalist with the Ilford Recorder and the Romford Times, then left to run his own freelance journalism agency.
[3] Turner also became active in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), and by 1990 was Father of the Chapel at the Mirror.
In protest, Turner resigned from the union and formed the rival British Association of Journalists, which attracted much of the staff from the Mirror.
He requested Lord Justice Leveson to enable journalists to give evidence to the Inquiry secretly and be guaranteed anonymity.