Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.
After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.
On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.
This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.
After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.
After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.
As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.
He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.
He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.
Contact jon@theolivepress.es
Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)
Does any one have any advise on bottling locally and exporting olive oil to overseas countries, from here in Spain.
Advice is saught also in bottle suplly and bottling equipment.
I understand the plight of smaller olive is particularly difficult. I am not fully aware of the economics of olive oil production but I know a local factory that still has some of last year’s oil in storage – the highest quality oil at that.
Olives are more important to the economy of inland Adalucia than property or tourism so as well as ex-pats buying more locally produced oil, I think John Thornton’s exporting idea is excellent. However I think a deal with a local producer and bottler and utilising ex-pat marketing expertise to promote local brands in UK is the way to go.
Wish the price of olives was 1,85€ per kilo, I’d be a lot better off. Think you mean price of olive oil…..it takes about five kilos of olives to produce one of oil. The future of the oil business is bleak indeed, none of the local growers want to face up to what is likely to be a serious revision of the CAP subsidy by 2013, and for most of them, that subsidy represents the profit they obtain for their crop.