Joe Cusack Biography

Joe Cusack, journalist, feature writer, TV producer and author, was born in Liverpool and currently lives in Manchester.

Travelling across eastern Europe and the Former Yugoslavia as a freelance photographer in 1992, his experiences In Bosnia underpinned his determination to pursue a career in journalism.

Establishing his credibility by gleaning some academic qualifications, he went on to attain a reputation as a talented and dependable news reporter and investigative journalist working for a number of newspapers including The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Mirror and The Daily Mirror. He also worked freelance as a feature writer for a variety of popular magazines, experience that inspired his movement into biography. Identifying a number of stories he believed were worthy of a wider audience, he went on to ghost write ten Amazon best selling memoirs, three of which made the Sunday Times best seller list.

In recent years, he has become involved in the production of several TV documentaries that have drawn on his skills as an investigative journalist and interviewer, most notably, the three part series on The Murder of Charlene Downes.

Joe has also ghost written two historically significant autobiographies, both of which drew heavily on the subjects’ personal experience of the hacking scandal that resulted in the prosecution of some of those involved and ultimately brought down the News of the World newspaper.

He has also completed a yet to be released memoir on a well-known entrepreneur and is currently working on a groundbreaking, multi voiced, first person retrospective book which explores the backdrop and trial of those involved in the bringing down of the controversial statue of Bristol slave trader, Edward Colston. This will be completed by end September 2024.