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)
No doubt salaries rises are spearheaded by politicians awarding themselves another pay increase.
In which parallel universe was this nonsense released? I just spoke to a teacher friend (Spanish) and she said her salary has been cut. If you’re coming to a country to work and earn money, find another country.
Spain is a parallel universe Fred. You should know that by now…
Just imagine, in one such Universe, Spain is a well run, efficient, full of employed people, no corruption of any kind, and the government tells the truth.
Please can someone find the Higgs Boson quickly and create a portal so we can all move across?
A mate of mine who works at my town hall was not paid a cent in June and July last year. No cash in the coffers apparently – well not for peones like him at least.He got the princely sum of €10 in August and then the rest in dribs and drabs. He is still not totally up to speed on what he is owed.
I bet however that his full salary was the figure which made its way to the ILO…