She attended Rushcliffe School, a comprehensive in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, where her father, Don, was deputy-headmaster.
Newton started in Fleet Street in 1993 at the Daily Express as a trainee after graduating from university,[1] and then worked at The People.
In 1998, she became an assistant to Dominic Mohan on The Sun's "Bizarre" pages, before becoming the paper's Los Angeles correspondent in 1999.
[3] In November 2007, it was announced that Newton would be leaving "Bizarre" and had been promoted to Head of Features and Entertainment.
[4] Newton remained in this job until her appointment as the deputy editor of the News of the World in October 2009,[5] a position she retained until the paper's closure in 2011.