David Brewerton is an English

England

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 author

Author

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 and journalist

Journalist

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. He was born in London

London

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, England which is still his home city. He was educated in the East End of London at Coopers' Company School.

Career

After a short spell in the securities industry, Brewerton moved into financial journalism working initially for the Exchange Telegraph newswire. In the late sixties he joined the Financial Times

Financial Times

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and in 1970 moved to the City desk of The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

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. Brewerton moved again in 1986 when he helped found The Independent

The Independent

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as City Editor and was awarded the London Business School Prize as Financial Journalist Of The Year. During his time at The Independent he was responsible for breaking most of the stories on the notorious Guinness Affair which led to several leading businessmen—including Gerald Ronson

Gerald Ronson

Gerald Maurice Ronson is a British business tycoon and philanthropist.-Career:Aged 15, Ronson left school and joined his father in the family furniture business, named Heron after his father Henry. The company expanded into other activities; in the mid-1960s Ronson brought the first self-service...

 and Ernest Saunders

Ernest Saunders

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—being sent to prison. In 1988 Brewerton was recruited by Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

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 as Executive Editor of The Times

The Times

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Business News.
At the end of his agreed contract with Murdoch, Brewerton became a partner in the public relations consultancy Brunswick where he advised major corporations on how to deal with the media. He left the business in 2002 to develop his third career as an author and freelance journalist. In journalism, he specialises in writing obituaries of business personalities, principally for the Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

newspaper.
Brewerton's first full length novel, Impeccable Sources, is due out in 2007 and draws on his long experience of newspapers and in particular of investigative stories. His non-fiction work includes A History of the Mercantile and General Reinsurance Company.

Brewerton is a Trustee of The Ragged School Museum Trust