Piers Morgan

Epic card · No. 11930

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is an English broadcaster, journalist, television personality, and writer. He began his career in 1988 at the tabloid The Sun. In 1994, at the age of 29, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century. From 1995 Morgan edited the Daily Mirror, until he was sacked in 2004, for publishing faked photographs of British soldiers inflicting brutality on Iraqi prisoners of war. He was the editorial director of First News from 2006 to 2007. In 2014, he became the first editor-at-large of the MailOnline website's American operation. As a television presenter, Morgan hosted the ITV talk show Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2009–2020), the CNN talk show Piers Morgan Live (2011–2014), and co-presented the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain (2015–2021) alongside Susanna Reid. He has been a judge on the television talent...

Read on Wikipedia · Image DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0