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Peter Wilby was born on 7 November, 1944, is a British journalist. Discover Peter Wilby'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 79 years old?

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1944

Peter John Wilby (born 7 November 1944) is a British journalist and convicted sex offender.

He is a former editor of The Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman.

Wilby was educated at Kibworth Beauchamp grammar school in Leicestershire before gaining a place at Sussex University.

Whilst at Sussex, from which he graduated with a degree in history, he helped found a short-lived university paper called Sussex Outlook.

1960

Wilby was the longest serving editor of the New Statesman since Kingsley Martin, who had retired from the post in 1960.

1968

In 1968, he began his career as a reporter on The Observer, becoming Education Correspondent four years later.

1975

In the same role, he worked for the New Statesman (1975–77), and for The Sunday Times (1977–86).

1990

Wilby joined The Independent on Sunday in 1990 and eventually became its editor (1995–96).

He admitted to having a sexual interest in children and to having viewed indecent images since the 1990s.

Dean Nelson, a journalist who worked for newspapers employing Wilby, asserts that Wilby used his journalism to denigrate child sexual abuse victims, and his senior editorial positions to suppress proposed articles on child sexual abuse.

1998

Wilby was the editor of the New Statesman from 1998 to 2005.

2002

In February 2002, Wilby apologised and took personal responsibility for running the cover of the 14 January 2002 issue.

It featured the headline, "A Kosher Conspiracy" promoting articles by Dennis Sewell and John Pilger respectively concerning the alleged Zionist lobby in Britain and Tony Blair's appointment of Michael Levy as his special envoy in the Middle East.

The NS cover was denounced by David Triesman, then general secretary of the Labour Party, as being antisemitic.

Wilby, in his apology, wrote that the cover was "not intended to be anti-Semitic".

"I don't accept that there's such a thing as New Labour", Wilby told David Lister of The Independent in July 2002.

He described the term as being "an invention of the marketing people close to the Labour leader".

A scoop Wilby was fond of at the time concerned an interview with the physician, professor and Labour peer Robert Winston.

Winston's comparison of the National Health Service (NHS) with health provision in Poland had, said Wilby, changed government policy.

Julia Langdon wrote in the British Journalism Review around the same time that the NS under Wilby had a reputation in the "political trade" for "being either dull, or silly".

With Wilby as editor, it had become "ever more critical of the Government, notably with the anti-American line he took after September 11".

2004

A New Statesman article in autumn 2004 by Robert Service, then Professor of Russian History at Oxford University, and in particular the cover illustration, portrayed Tony Blair as the modern equivalent of Joseph Stalin.

Wilby's deputy, Cristina Odone, resigned in early November 2004 for unconnected reasons, although she did object to the cover.

Odone and Wilby praised each other in the media and denied having had a row, although claims of such professional disagreements, quoting Odone herself, were made in the press.

Wilby, she said, was "the old-fashioned socialist who" remained "true to his ideals".

2005

Wilby himself was dismissed from the post of editor in 2005 by then-owner Geoffrey Robinson.

As a result of the magazine being unsympathetic to New Labour, Cristina Odone wrote in The Observer that she believed Wilby was pushed out of his post in preparation for Gordon Brown becoming prime minister.

While circulation was much the same when he assumed the role as when he relinquished it in 2005, Wilby wrote in an article for the British Journalism Review that he managed to turn "a substantial financial loss into a healthy operating profit".

Wilby continued to write a weekly "First Thoughts" column for the New Statesman.

He also wrote for The Observer and The Guardian.

Wilby claims to live "quietly and unfashionably" in Loughton.

He identifies as a feminist and a republican.

Wilby was arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) at his home in Essex in October 2022.

In August 2023 he was convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court of making indecent images of children.

For this he was given a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and was placed on the sex offenders register for five years.