Dominic Mohan

Who is Dominic Mohan?

Dominic Mohan is an English journalist and former editor of The Sun newspaper in London.

Born in Bristol, his family moved to Cambridgeshire when he was 10 years old. He attended the Cromwell Community College and the Neale-Wade Community College in March, before graduating from Southampton University in English. While studying for his degree he wrote for and then edited The Wessex News, the Southampton University student newspaper.

He joined The Sun in 1996 working on the "Bizarre" Column. Mohan was appointed deputy editor of The Sun in 2007 by Rebekah Brooks and was named as her replacement in 2009 following Brooks' promotion to chief executive of News International.

Mohan conceived the idea of re-recording Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2004, for which he received the Hugh Cudlipp Award at the British Press Awards in 2005. He was instrumental in the Live 8 concert which followed.

In June 2013 it was announced that Mohan will be replaced as editor of The Sun by David Dinsmore. Following the corporate restructuring of 'newspaper's parent company, he is to become an assistant to the CEO of News Corp.