[2] He was the political editor of The Sun from 2009 to 2020, having previously worked for ten years as a defence journalist and foreign reporter.
[3] He studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree.
He spent several years (1999–2001) with the Mirror as a news reporter, before being made the paper's defence correspondent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and covering the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
[7] Newton Dunn left The Sun to become a presenter and chief political commentator at the newly-formed Times Radio in summer 2020.
[8] In March 2021 Newton Dunn briefly wrote a weekly political column for the Evening Standard in the slot left vacant by the departure of editor-in-chief George Osborne.
[15] He also won Scoop of the Year for the Matty Hull friendly fire incident story at the 2007 What The Papers Say Awards.
[18][19] In December 2019, Newton Dunn wrote an article for The Sun titled "'HIJACKED LABOUR'", in which he reported that former British intelligence officers had produced a chart alleging that "Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre of an extraordinary network of hard-left extremists".