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)
What about Granada??? When we will got a London carrier?
When your council get sensible. They played hardball with Ryanair and stopped paying their subsidy, in the belief that Ryanair wouldn´t pull out. Wrong!
Get a group together to lobby the council to get Ryanair back-a number of people lost their jobs at the airport because of their silly decision, and a lot of pasengers lost a convenient service.
Aaahh but theres the rub Steve (and Monica), Ryanair is still flying in/out of Granada – but only to Bologna and Milan.
Please don’t ask – it doesn’t make sense to me unless those places are providing some form of subsidy.
As to his moving to Ciudad Real, even the locals cannot understand why, it has less infrastructure than Granada (which was starting to improve although air-side still pants) and connections with the real world non existant!
Now perhaps Monarch will come back to Granada after being frightened off by O’Leary’s predatory pricing. Irrespective we do need a carrier that isnt going via Madrid or Barcelona on code share flights.