Peter Jukes is the co-founder and executive editor of Byline Times.
10 Facts About Peter Jukes
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Peter Jukes's mother was an Armenian and the daughter of a man fleeing the Armenian genocide; she was later adopted by his grandfather.
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Peter Jukes' television writing has mainly been in the genre of prime time thrillers or TV detective fiction, with 90-minute or two-hour long stories being broadcast by the BBC.
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Peter Jukes devised and wrote most of the three seasons of the BBC One prime time undercover thriller In Deep starring Nick Berry and Stephen Tompkinson; two 90-minute film length episodes of the BBC One series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries;.
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In October 2009, Peter Jukes wrote a critical piece for Prospect magazine, contrasting the standards of UK television drama negatively with the standard of television dramas in America.
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Peter Jukes is the author of The Fall of the House of Murdoch, published by Unbound, a crowd-funded publisher, in August 2012.
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Peter Jukes co-hosted the podcast Dial M for Mueller with journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
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Peter Jukes has been a book reviewer and feature writer for both The Independent and the New Statesman on themes including nationalism, art in the computer age, and apocalyptic religion.
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Peter Jukes became an active Barack Obama supporter during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries in the US, writing for Daily Kos and then MyDD when it became a pro-Hillary Clinton site.
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In May 2016, Peter Jukes presented and co-produced with Deeivya Meier a 20-part podcast about the Murder of Daniel Morgan, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, which topped the UK iTunes podcast chart.