Piers Morgan is an English broadcaster, journalist, and writer with a career spanning print media and television. He began his career in 1988 at the tabloid The Sun. In 1994, at the age of 29, Rupert Murdoch appointed him editor of the News of the World, making him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in over half a century. From 1995, Morgan edited the Daily Mirror until his departure in 2004.