Interview With Top Crime Reporter Martin Brunt : Bonus Episode

About this episode

In this bonus episode, Adam Lloyd interviews top crime reporter Martin Brunt about his career and insights into high-profile criminal cases.

In this bonus episode, I chat with top crime reporter, Martin Brunt. Martin spent 36 years at Sky News and built such a reputation for contacts that, during the 2006 Ipswich serial murders, a police press officer reportedly told a rival journalist: 'Call Martin Brunt. He knows everything before we do.' Martin Brunt joined Sky for its launch in 1989, reported from the Gulf and Balkan wars, then became one of Britain's best-known crime reporters, covering cases including Fred and Rose West, Sarah Payne, Jill Dando, Madeleine McCann and the Hatton Garden raid.  His book, 'No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason', opens up his notebook on the victims, detectives, villains, sources, errors and ethical choices behind those headlines, and asks why some crimes seize the public imagination while others barely register. Martin stepped back from full time reporting in 2025, but retirement seems to have evaded him: he remains a Sky crime commentator and, with Helen Fospero, co-hosts the award-winning True Criminals podcast.  I release new episodes of the UK True Crime podcast every Tuesday and Friday - please join me for the next episode on Tuesday. Listen to…

People in this episode

Host: Adam Lloyd

Guest: Martin Brunt

Topics covered

• crime reporting
• journalism
• true crime
• interview
• media
• ethical choices

Keywords

• crime reporter
• Martin Brunt
• Sky News
• true crime podcast
• journalism ethics
• Ipswich murders
• Fred West
• Madeleine McCann

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sky News, True Criminals

Books & works: No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason

Places: Ipswich, Britain

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