Shock of the News

Confessions of a Troublemaker

Jonathan Miller

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Wilkinson Publishing
23 October 2025

Biography: business & industry; Autobiography: business & industry; Popular culture; Media, information & communication industries; Press & journalism

In a razor-sharp witty memoir Jonathan Miller pulls back the curtain on Murdoch, media, tech and the news in a way that is bound to provoke debate. The young Jonathan Miller had an innate talent to annoy authority as a pupil at Bedales school. When he discovered that the news can be like a hand grenade, he had found his calling.

In pursuit of creating a stir, he ended up in many different places, from Rupert Murdoch’s tech adviser and disruptor-in-chief, to war reporting in Kosovo, the UK’s first news site, Piers Morgan’s Uncensored and bare-knuckle reporting on the follies of rural Britain.

These spiky confessions trace through the Murdoch empire’s secrets, the tech revolution that preceded the web, Bart Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, the doomed fate of wokeness, and trouble in an era flattened by AI. Tech and the media world will never look the same...

By: Jonathan Miller
Imprint: Wilkinson Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 9781921804175
ISBN 10: 1921804173
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 23 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Miller worked in the UK, Europe and US as Rupert Murdoch’s tech advisor, media founder, leader writer and columnist. He was also a war correspondent, and contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post and MSNBC. He was also a writer for Spectator Australia as the France correspondent. Jonathan Miller passed away in July 2025 at his home in Occitanie, France.

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Shock of the News

Confessions of a Troublemaker

Jonathan Miller

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