Susie Boniface

Susie Boniface is an English freelance journalist who writes about the tabloid news industry using the pseudonym Fleet Street Fox in her blog and on Twitter. She writes a column for the Daily Mirror. She used the name Lillys Miles while writing as Fleet Street Fox, but came out as Fleet Street Fox when her book Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox was published in 2013.

Career

Boniface comes from Kent and first worked at the Kent & Sussex Courier for three years after leaving school.[1][2] She worked at the Plymouth Herald as defence reporter.[3] She worked at the Sunday Mirror for 10 years, until she accepted redundancy in March 2012.[4]

Fleet Street Fox

Boniface began tweeting as fleetstreetfox in October 2009[5] and blogging as Fleet Street Fox in 2011.[6] She revealed her name in February 2013, when her book was published by Constable & Robinson, though her identity was not a closely kept secret before then;[7] she had been named on Twitter in 2011 by Chris Atkins[8] and again after a spat with Jemima Khan in May 2012.[9][10] She was accused of "hypocritical misogyny" by Sarah Ditum in 2012.[11] Julie Burchill praised her blogging in the British Journalism Review, but said of the book, "Reader, I hated it."[12] Annalena McAfee in the Financial Times wrote "There is, one feels, too much Fox and not enough Fleet Street."[13]

Awards

Boniface was nominated for the 2009 British Press Awards for her campaign "British Nuclear Test Vets".[14] She won 3rd "must follow journo" in the 2011 The CRAPPs awards as Fleet Street Fox.[15]

Fleet Street Fox won the London Press Club Blog of the Year in 2013.[16] She was nominated for Columnist of the Year (popular press) in the 2014 Society of Editors Press Awards.[17]

Personal life

Boniface separated from her husband, a Sun journalist, in 2006.[18] Her book described both her work as a journalist and their divorce, in which she referred to him using the insulting pseudonym, Twatface.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Kent Press & Broadcast Awards - The Judges
  2. ↑ The GoThinkBig interview: Fleet Street Fox, on tabloids, becoming a journalist, and Leveson. Molly Pierce. 26 February 2013
  3. ↑ Fleet Street Fox is former Plymouth Herald reorter Susie Boniface. February 12, 2013
  4. ↑ Ian Burrell: The internet Antichrist who is converting online evangelists. Ian Burrell. 28 May 2012
  5. ↑ 26 October 2009
  6. ↑ Millie Cotton. It's a LDN Thing May 30, 2011 Who is the Fleet Street Fox?
  7. ↑ Fleet Street Fox: anonymity was crucial to my freedom. Brooke Magnanti 12 Feb 2013
  8. ↑ 30 December 2011
  9. ↑ Revealed: The secret Twitter stars getting themselves into a web of mischief. Evening Standard. 11 May 2012. Richard Godwin
  10. ↑ So Susie Boniface is ‘Fleet Street Fox’: what a surprise. Andy McSmith. 11 February 2013. Independent Blogs.
  11. ↑ Sarah Ditum. 7 May 2012. Fleet Street Fox's hypocritical misogyny. New Statesman
  12. ↑ Julie Burchill. Not fleet, not foxy, not funny. British Journalism Review. Vol. 24, No. 2, 2013, pages 70-71
  13. ↑ February 22, 2013 Street of shame. Annalena McAfee
  14. ↑ Press Gazette British Press Awards 2009: The shortlist. Dominic Ponsford, 25 February 2009
  15. ↑ The CRAPPs 2011 – winners announced! 15 December 2011
  16. ↑ BBC Newsnight journalists win award for spiked Jimmy Savile investigation. Jason Deans 22 May 2013
  17. ↑ Sunday Times leads the way as nominations announced for Society of Editors Press Awards. Press Gazette 28 February 2014
  18. ↑ Axe Grinder. Press Gazette. 24 September 2006
  19. ↑ Independent on Sunday. Review: The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox, By Fleet Street Fox. A vixen's life among the vermin. Emily Dugan 24 February 2013

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