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Con Coughlin was born on 14 January, 1955 in London, England, is a British journalist and author (born 1955). Discover Con Coughlin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, author
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January, 1955
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1955

Con Coughlin (born 14 January 1955) is a British journalist and author, currently The Daily Telegraph defence editor.

Coughlin was born in 1955 in London, England.

He read Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he specialised in the Industrial Revolution under the tutelage of the historian Simon Schama.

1977

In August 1977 Coughlin joined the Thomson Regional Newspapers graduate trainee course and after undertaking his initial training in Cardiff served out his indentures as a trainee reporter with the Reading Evening Post.

1980

In November 1980 Coughlin joined The Daily Telegraph as a general news reporter.

Coughlin has spent most of his journalistic career working for what is now the Telegraph Media Group.

As a young reporter for his newspaper, he was initially given responsibility for covering a number of major crime stories, such as the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe (dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper) and the Brixton riots.

1983

Becoming a foreign correspondent, his first big assignment was to cover the American invasion of Grenada in late 1983.

From there he was sent to Beirut during the Lebanese civil war where he developed his interest in the Middle East and international terrorism.

1985

After the Telegraph group was bought in 1985 by the Canadian businessman Conrad Black, Coughlin was appointed The Daily Telegraph's Middle East correspondent by Max Hastings, the newspaper's new editor.

Coughlin opened the newspaper's bureau in Jerusalem, and spent the next three years covering a multitude of stories throughout the region.

1986

In April 1986 he narrowly escaped being kidnapped by Hezbollah fighters in Beirut, the day before another British journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped.

1989

In 1989 Coughlin returned to London, where he transferred to The Sunday Telegraph and was appointed the newspaper's chief foreign correspondent.

1992

His first book was Hostage: The Complete Story of the Lebanon Captives (Little, Brown 1992), which was followed by a study of the politics of modern Jerusalem, A Golden Basin Full of Scorpions which was BBC correspondent John Simpson's "book of the year" and was described as "excellent, a brilliant book" by the author A. N. Wilson.

1995

The Sunday Telegraph had published an article by Coughlin in November 1995, then the newspaper's chief foreign correspondent (and a piece for the newspaper's Mandrake column, published during the following month, which quoted Coughlin) alleging that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was involved in a massive criminal operation with Iranian officials that involved counterfeit notes and money laundering in Europe based on information received by British intelligence and banking officials.

The Sunday Telegraph was served with a libel writ by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

The original story followed a lunch given by Malcolm Rifkind, then Foreign Secretary, at which editor Charles Moore and colleagues were present, and later briefings given to Coughlin by MI6 agents who had insisted on the preservation of their anonymity.

1997

During the next few years he received several promotions, becoming Foreign Editor in 1997 and Executive Editor in 1999.

The following year The Sunday Telegraph won the prestigious "newspaper of the year" award at the British Press Awards.

He has appeared as a foreign-affairs analyst on the American networks CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC and MSNBC and NBC.

In Britain he broadcasts regularly for the BBC and Sky News.

1998

After a hearing at the Court of Appeal in October 1998, it was established that the journalists had a right to bring the story before the public under the Qualified privilege, under the Reynold's Defence rules established by an earlier case, Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd the previous July.

2002

In 2002 Coughlin published a biography of Saddam Hussein.

Telegraph Newspapers apologised for a libel against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in April 2002.

The main court case followed in 2002, which was defended by the Telegraph Group and was eventually settled out of court without any damages being paid, and with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.

In 2002 Geoffrey Robertson QC made a statement on behalf of the Telegraph Group stating "there was no truth in the allegation that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi participated in any currency sting".

2003

The American edition, Saddam: King of Terror (ECCO) was a New York Times best-seller in 2003, and received international critical acclaim.

In late 2003, in a front-page exclusive story, Coughlin revealed a leaked intelligence memorandum, purportedly uncovered by Iraq's interim government, which detailed a meeting between Mohamed Atta, one of the 11 September hijackers, and Iraqi intelligence at the time of Saddam Hussein.

The memo was supposedly written by Iraqi security chief General Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti to the president of Iraq.

2006

In 2006 Coughlin rejoined The Daily Telegraph as the newspaper's defence and security editor after a brief spell writing for the Daily Mail, and later that year was promoted to the post of executive foreign editor.

He writes a weekly column, "Inside Abroad", and comments on a broad range of subjects, with a special interest in defence and security issues, the Middle East and international terrorism.

He maintains a blog for the Telegraph's website.

Coughlin is the author of several books.

His next book, American Ally: Tony Blair and the War on Terror (ECCO, 2006) was nominated Kirkus Reviews books of the year.

2009

In March 2009 Coughlin recalled this experience in My Alter Ego, a programme for BBC Radio 4.

In 2009 Coughlin published Khomeini's Ghost (Macmillan, London, and ECCO, New York City) a study of the life of Ayatollah Khomeini and his impact on the radicalisation of the Islamic world during the previous thirty years.

Historian Dominic Sandbrook, reviewing Khomeini's Ghost in The Observer, wrote: "Readers already familiar with recent Iranian history will not discover much new information in Coughlin's account, but it nevertheless makes a very readable and entertaining introduction to a nation badly misunderstood in the west. And while Coughlin makes no secret of his deep antipathy to the Iranian government, his treatment of its founder is satisfyingly nuanced".

Iranian-American journalist Azadeh Moaveni, in a review for The New York Times, asserted that the book contained factual errors and misrepresentations of facts, the author having documents out of context to bolster his argument.

2014

In January 2014 Thomas Dunne Books published Coughlin's book on Churchill's First War: Young Winston at War with the Afghans.

In addition Coughlin has regularly written for several other publications including The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly.