Jon Ronson Biography
Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist, novelist, and filmmaker who has been regarded as a gonzo journalist, adopting a faux-naïf persona in his writing.
How old is Jon Ronson? – Age
He is 56 years old as of May 10, 2023. He was born in 1967 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Jon Ronson Education
He attended Cardiff High School and later worked for CBC Radio in Cardiff before relocating to London to pursue a media degree at the Polytechnic Central London.
Jon Ronson Wife
Ronson and his wife, Elaine, have one son. Ronson is Jewish and describes himself as a “distinguished supporter” of Humanists UK. He is a supporter of Arsenal FC and has expressed his “adoration” for the club.
Jon Ronson Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jon Ronson Radio
Ronson’s primary radio job is the creation and presenting of a BBC Radio 4 program called Jon Ronson on… The show has been nominated for a Sony Award four times. Jon Ronson’s documentary “Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side” about music artist Williams’ preoccupation with UFOs and the paranormal aired on Radio 4 in August 2008.
In the early 1990s, Ronson was given the position of sidekick on Terry Christian’s Show on Manchester radio station KFM. Ronson also co-hosted a KFM show with Craig Cash, who later went on to write and perform for The Royle Family and Early Doors.
Ronson contributes to Public Radio International in the United States, specifically the program This American Life. As of 2021, he has contributed segments to 13 episodes including “Them” (#201), “Naming Names” (#211), “Family Physics” (#214), “Habeas Schmabeas” (#310), “It’s Never Over” (#314), “The Spokesman” (#338), “Pro Se” (#385), “First Contact” (#411), “The Psychopath Test” (#436), “Secret Identity” (#506), “Tarred and Feathered” (#522), “To Be Real” (#620), “Beware the Jabberwock” (#670).
Jon Ronson Podcast
Ronson hosted and wrote the podcast The Butterfly Effect, which was released in November 2017 by Audible and thereafter made available on other audio platforms. The show focuses on internet pornography and the impact that Fabian Thylmann and PornHub have had on the industry. Ronson also hosted and wrote the podcast The Last Days of August, which debuted in January 2019. It focuses on the 2017 death of August Ames, a pornographic performer.
Ronson returned to the BBC in 2021 with Things Fell Apart: a Culture Wars podcast for BBC Sounds, which followed the style of his earlier Amazon efforts.
Jon Ronson Career
In the last part of the 1980s, Ronson supplanted Imprint Radcliffe as the console player for the Straight to the point Sidebottom band for various exhibitions. Ronson was the director of the Manchester independent band Man From Delmonte. Ronson introduced the last part of the nineties television show For the Love of…, in which every week he would talk with a social event of visitors and specialists on various peculiarities and paranoid ideas. Ronson has likewise showed up as a visitor on different shows, including Alan Davies: At this point Untitled.
Ronson sold the movie freedoms to The Ones Who Gaze at Goats, and hence a movie of a similar name was delivered in 2009 as a satire war movie coordinated by Award Heslov and composed by Peter Straughan. As indicated by Ronson’s DVD-editorial, the columnist character Weave Wilton (Ewan McGregor) encountered a few components of Ronson’s self-recapped story from the book. In any case, not at all like Ronson, Wilton was an American from Ann Arbor. Likewise, dissimilar to Ronson, Wilton went to Iraq.
During the time spent visiting the set during the shoot, Ronson started a cooperative composing project with Straughan. This was the screenplay for Straight to the point, a 2014 dark parody motivated to some extent by Ronson’s time in Plain Sidebottom’s band. With Bong Joon-ho, Ronson composed the screenplay for the 2017 Netflix film Okja.
Jon Ronson Books
Ronson’s debut book, Clubbed Class (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his way into a jet set lifestyle in search of the world’s best vacation.
His second book, Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), details his interactions with persons labeled as extremists. The book’s subjects include David Icke, Randy Weaver, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Ian Paisley, Alex Jones, and Thomas Robb. Ronson also follows independent investigators for secretive organizations such as the Bilderberg Group. The story follows Ronson’s attempts to penetrate the “shadowy cabal” that conspiracy theorists believe would govern the globe.
According to Publishers Weekly, “It is how he reveals the all-too-real machinations of Western society’s radical fringe and its various minions that makes this enjoyable work rather remarkable.” Louis Theroux hailed the novel as a “funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world.” In September 2005, Variety magazine reported that Universal Pictures has purchased Them for a feature film. Ronson contributed his book “A Fantastic Life” to the Picador anthology Truth or Dare in 2004.
Ronson’s third novel, The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), focuses on the First Earth Battalion, a covert New Age force within the United States Army. Ronson investigates persons like Major General Albert Stubblebine III, the former chief of intelligence, who believed that with the appropriate mental preparation, people could walk through walls and kill goats merely by staring at them.
Much was based on the concepts of retired Lt. Col. Jim Channon, who published the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual in 1979, inspired by California’s developing Human Potential Movement. The book contends that these New Age military beliefs evolved over time to influence interrogation procedures at Guantanamo Bay. In 2009, an eponymous film adaptation of the book was released, in which Ronson’s findings were fictionalized and centered on a voyage to Iraq. Ronson is played by Ewan McGregor in the movie.
Ronson’s fourth book, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness (2006; Picador and Guardian Books), is a collection of his Guardian articles, the most of which deal with his family life.What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness was a companion collection released in 2007.
Ronson’s fifth book, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, came out in 2011. In it, he investigates the nature of psychopathic behavior, learning how to use the Hare Psychopathy Checklist and assessing its reliability. He conducts interviews with persons in criminally ill hospitals and potential psychopaths in corporate boardrooms. The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy has rejected the book’s results, as has Robert D. Hare, the creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. Hare called the work “frivolous, shallow, and professionally disconcerting”.
Ronson’s sixth book, Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries (2012), is a collection of his previously published essays. Ronson’s book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015), examines the consequences of public humiliation in the digital age.