Lucy Johnston was born on 1969 and is a British journalist, currently health editor of the Sunday Express, and previously a staff reporter and investigative journalist for The Observer.
10 Facts About Lucy Johnston
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Lucy Johnston has become known for her investigative articles on London's drug culture, deaths in police custody, animal research, and the pharmaceutical industry, and for her campaigns to improve healthcare provision to the elderly and mentally ill.
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Lucy Johnston was educated at Culford School in Bury St Edmunds.
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Lucy Johnston moved to London in 1992 to work as a volunteer for The Big Issue, becoming a reporter with the newspaper's original editorial team, before working her way up to news editor, then assistant editor.
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Lucy Johnston was known from then until 1996 for several investigative pieces, including on deaths in police custody and street drugs in London.
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Tessa Swithinbank writes that Lucy Johnston was headhunted by The Observer in 1996 as a result of her ability to work with the kinds of sources few journalists were able to access.
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Lucy Johnston has conducted undercover investigations for the newspaper, including one in 2001 where she took a job as a care assistant in Lynde House, a nursing home owned by Westminster Health Care, which was headed by Chai Patel.
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Lucy Johnston's story was highly critical of the treatment the elderly residents were receiving; Patel, at the time a government adviser on care of the elderly, later sold the company and resigned from his government post.
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Lucy Johnston has campaigned in the Express to highlight the treatment of people with mental-health problems, and has written articles opposing the requirement that pensioners pay for medical treatment while in nursing homes.
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Lucy Johnston won a commendation in 1998 from the Natali Prize for Journalism, awarded by the International Federation of Journalists, for "Barred from animals' kingdom," an article in The Observer on the conflict over land rights in northern Tanzania between the Maasai people and the establishment of the Mkomazi National Park, a conservation area for animals.