14 Facts About Meirion Jones

Meirion Jones worked for the BBC from 1988 until 2015 and is the editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Meirion Jones has written for many newspapers including The Guardian.

Meirion Jones worked with journalist Liz MacKean in late 2011 on a Newsnight investigation which aimed to expose recently deceased BBC star Jimmy Savile as a prolific paedophile.

Meirion Jones featured in Netflix's two-part documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story.

Meirion Jones was the first full-time editor of the Cardiff student paper Gair Rhydd.

Meirion Jones once broke into the principal's office to copy and expose files about an Iraqi henchman.

Meirion Jones worked for Your Computer magazine, reviewing computers and interviewing the likes of Douglas Adams.

Meirion Jones then freelanced at New Scientist, where he wrote about a variety of subjects, from food poisoning to how to phase out the CFCs which were damaging the ozone layer.

Meirion Jones joined the BBC in 1988, working on the Today programme and then World at One and PM, before moving to Newsnight in 1996.

Meirion Jones wrote a print version of the revelations which New Statesman ran as their cover story.

The later Pollard Review found that Meirion Jones and MacKean had found cogent evidence that Savile was an abuser and that the programme could have exposed Savile in 2011, but a flawed decision was made not to broadcast.

Meirion Jones had met Savile a few times as a mid-teen, as his aunt had run Duncroft School for "intelligent but emotionally disturbed girls", which Savile visited.

In 2010, Meirion Jones became aware of a critical memoir by a former pupil, which instigated his interest in Savile.

In July 2016, Meirion Jones became investigations editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.