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Tony Brenna

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Tony is a veteran journalist who is now writing thrillers, novels that reflect his five decades working for newspapers and magazines globally. He has lived in the US for the past 56 years, after emigrating from his British home in 1964. He previously published a biography of one of the stars of the “Dallas” television series (“Victoria Principal,” St. Martin's Press, 1989).
He worked as editor and reporter for local weeklies in England and on London’s Fleet Street reporting for national daily and Sunday papers. He rose through the ranks to deputy editor at World's Press News, the trade journal of the British press. As Deputy Editor of Creel, the UK's first full-color monthly angling magazine, he commissioned and edited articles, and handled Tony is a veteran journalist who is now writing thrillers, novels that reflect his five decades working for newspapers and magazines globally. He has lived in the US for the past 56 years, after emigrating from his British home in 1964. He previously published a biography of one of the stars of the “Dallas” television series (“Victoria Principal,” St. Martin's Press, 1989).
He worked as editor and reporter for local weeklies in England and on London’s Fleet Street reporting for national daily and Sunday papers. He rose through the ranks to deputy editor at World's Press News, the trade journal of the British press. As Deputy Editor of Creel, the UK's first full-color monthly angling magazine, he commissioned and edited articles, and handled layout.
In New York, he covered the United Nations and US national news for The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the BBC World Service as an on-air correspondent. His time there included reporting for the Herald Tribune and becoming Associate Editor at Editor & Publisher, a trade journal of the American press, interviewing senior editorial management about the newspaper business.
Recruited by the National Enquirer, he became a senior reporter, roving editor, and Hollywood correspondent while based at the paper’s Florida headquarters. He moved to LA, still working for the Enquirer. Later, he was West Coast correspondent for the “Daily Mail.” He's contributed news and features to newspapers and magazines in Germany, Brazil, Australia (Woman's Day), the UK (Sun, News of the World, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror), and the US (Star, Globe, Life & Style). He wrote weekly columns about Madison Avenue for Britain's Advertiser's Weekly and celebrity news for New Zealand Woman's Weekly, where he also contributed features. With a Canadian psychic, Tony created the world's first "psychic gossip” column that appeared for ten years in the Sunday sections of the Toronto Sun, London Free Press, Ottawa Sun, and others in the Sun group. While living in LA, Tony appeared on shows such as Hard Copy and Inside Edition. Recently, he was prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated CNN documentary “Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer” (2019). ...more

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