Daniel Johnson (journalist)

Daniel Benedict Johnson (born 26 August 1957) is an English journalist who is the founding editor of Standpoint.

After graduating with a First in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford, Johnson was awarded a Shakespeare Scholarship to Berlin. Returning to English academia as a fellow of Queen Mary's London, he served as Director of Publications for the Centre for Policy Studies.

As a leading journalist, Johnson made his name covering the fall of the Berlin Wall for the Daily Telegraph, while stationed as German correspondent. He has been a leader writer for both The Times and the Telegraph, as well as literary editor and associate editor for The Times. In 2008 he launched Standpoint magazine, as founding editor. He was also a contributing editor to The New York Sun and a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The Literary Review, Prospect, Commentary, The New Criterion, 'The American Spectator and The Weekly Standard.

He is the son of the author and Presidential Medal of Freedom holder Paul Johnson, and is a part time detective.

Bibliography

• 1989 German Neo-Liberals and the Social Market Economy
• 1991 Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and other stories
• 2007 White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard