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{{Short description|British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker}}{{Distinguish|text=American politician Ron Johnson}}

{{EngvarB|date=February 2016}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Jon Ronson

| image = Jon Ronson (27846097432) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Ronson in 2016

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|05|10}}

| birth_place = Cardiff, Wales

| occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|author|filmmaker}}

| alma_mater = Polytechnic of Central London

| genre = {{hlist|Conspiracy theories|investigative journalism|gonzo journalism}}

| spouse = Elaine Patterson

| children = 1

| website = {{URL|jonronson.com}}

}}

Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for works such as Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011).

He has been described as a gonzo journalist,Relative to the Gonzo characterization: 1) Ronson, Jon, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/22/huntersthompson 'I've gotta get my elephant tusks back'], The Guardian, 22 February 2005. The article subtitle read in part: "... Hunter S. Thompson created a new style of writing – gonzo – and a generation of followers. Jon Ronson explains why he became one of them"; the article was written the day after Thompson's death by suicide; Ronson himself in the article does not lay claim to the term to describe himself; and 2) ____, James, [http://ffresh.com/en/2011/01/13/ffresh-2011-programme-goes-live/ Ffresh 2011 Programme Goes Live"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122065322/http://ffresh.com/en/2011/01/13/ffresh-2011-programme-goes-live/ |date=22 January 2011 }}, website for Ffresh: Student Moving Image Festival of Wales, 13 January 2011. "Highlights include sessions with … gonzo journalist Jon Ronson ...." Both retrieved 17 February 2011. becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories.Rosenbaum, Ron (2002), [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/books/beyond-the-fringe.html "Beyond the Fringe"], The New York Times (13 January issue). He produces informal but sceptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, City Life and Time Out. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4.

Early life

Ronson was born in Cardiff on 10 May 1967. He attended Cardiff High School and later worked for CBC Radio in Cardiff, before moving to London to study for a media degree at the Polytechnic of Central London.Nathan Bevan, [http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2009/10/27/who-is-jon-ronson-91466-25020325 Who is Jon Ronson?], WalesOnline.co.uk, retrieved 13 June 2011.

Career

= Writing =

File:Jon Ronson by Walnut Whippet.jpg

{{external media| float = right| width=230px| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?168649-1/them-adventures-extremists Booknotes interview with Ronson on Them, March 24, 2002], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?186334-1/the-men-stare-goats Presentation by Ronson on The Men Who Stare at Goats, April 14, 2005], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?325225-1/jon-ronson-so-publicly-shamed Presentation by Ronson on So You've Been Publicly Shamed, April 1, 2015], C-SPAN}}

Ronson gained fame writing a column for Time Out, consisting of a series of challenges he set himself. He later adapted this into a television series, The Ronson Mission, for BBC2 in 1993.[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/78e34590d3484adb8bfa19f38a2eeb83 Def II: The Ronson Mission]. BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-10.

Ronson's first book, Clubbed Class (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his way into a jet set lifestyle, in search of the world's finest holiday.{{cite web |title= Clubbed Class by Jon Ronson |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37472.Clubbed_Class |work= GoodReads.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

His second book, Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), chronicles his experiences with people labelled as extremists. Subjects featured in the book include David Icke, Randy Weaver, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Ian Paisley, Alex Jones, and Thomas Robb. Ronson also follows independent investigators of secretive groups such as the Bilderberg Group.{{cite web |last=Rakoff |first=Joanna |title=Jon Ronson |url=http://www.salon.com/2002/03/14/ronson_2/ |work=Salon |date=15 March 2002 |access-date=10 November 2012}} The narrative tells of Ronson's attempts to infiltrate the "shadowy cabal" fabled, by these conspiracy theorists, to rule the world.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Okg6WBbMjzQC&q=them%20adventures%20with%20extremists&pg=PA91 |title=Them:Adventures in Extremism p91 |access-date=4 November 2009 |isbn=978-1-4391-2673-8 |last1=Ronson |first1=Jon |date=28 June 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster }} Publishers Weekly noted: "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."{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780743227070|title=

THEM: Adventures with Extremists|website=Publishers Weekly|date=12 November 2001|access-date=13 January 2024}} The book was described by Louis Theroux as a "funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world."{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4166306,00.html |title=Stranger than fiction |access-date=4 March 2009 |last=Theroux |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Theroux |date=7 April 2001 |work=The Guardian |location=London}} Variety magazine announced in September 2005 that Them had been purchased by Universal Pictures for a feature film.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/them-makes-way-to-u-1117929334/|title='Them' makes way to U|last=Fleming|first=Michael|work=Variety|date=19 September 2005|access-date=20 November 2012}}

Ronson contributed the memoir "A Fantastic Life" to the Picador anthology Truth or Dare, in 2004.{{cite web |title= Truth Or Dare: A Book Of Secrets Shared by Justine Picardie |url= http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616081.Truth_Or_Dare |work= GoodReads.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

Ronson's third book, The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), deals with the secret New Age unit within the United States Army called the First Earth Battalion. Ronson investigates people such as Major General Albert Stubblebine III, former head of intelligence, who believed that people can walk through walls with the right mental preparation, and that goats can be killed simply by staring at them. Much was based on the ideas of Lt. Col. Jim Channon, ret., who wrote the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual in 1979, inspired by the emerging Human Potential Movement of California. The book suggests that these New Age military ideas mutated over the decades to influence interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay. An eponymous film of the book was released in 2009, in which Ronson's investigations were fictionalised and structured around a journey to Iraq. Ronson is played by the actor Ewan McGregor in the film.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/ |title=The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |work=IMDb |access-date=21 June 2009}}

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, mostly those concerning his domestic life. A companion volume was What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness (2007).{{cite web |url=http://www.jonronson.com/news.html |title=news |publisher=jonronson.com |access-date=21 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228103453/http://www.jonronson.com/news.html |archive-date=28 December 2014 }}{{cite web |title= What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2135080.What_I_Do |work=GoodReads.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (2011) is Ronson's fifth book. In it, he explores the nature of psychopathic behaviour, learning how to apply the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and investigating its reliability. He interviews people in facilities for the criminally insane as well as potential psychopaths in corporate boardrooms.{{cite web |last= Tartakovsky |first= Margarita |title= The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry By Jon Ronson book review |url=http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/ |work= PsychCentral.com | publisher= Psych Central| url-status=dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130517224035/http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/| archivedate= 17 May 2013 |access-date=26 November 2012}}{{cite news |last=Blincoe |first=Nicholas |title= The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry By Jon Ronson: review |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8565585/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-through-the-Madness-Industry-by-Jon-Ronson-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8565585/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-through-the-Madness-Industry-by-Jon-Ronson-review.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 November 2012 |location=London |date=13 June 2011}}{{cbignore}} The book's findings have been rejected by The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and by Robert D. Hare, creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.{{cite web |url= https://psychopathysociety.org/page/RonsonCommentary|title=General Ronson Commentary | website= psychopathysociety.org | publisher= Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy |access-date=16 June 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hare.org/comments/comment3.html|title=A Commentary on Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry| website= hare.org| first= Robert D.| last= Hare| access-date=16 June 2020}} Hare described the book as "frivolous, shallow, and professionally disconcerting".

Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries (2012), Ronson's sixth book, is a collection of previously published articles by him.{{cite web|url=http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/book-review-lost-seathe-jon-ronson-mysteries|title=Book Review: 'Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries'|first=Miles|last=Winston|access-date=20 January 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165100/http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/book-review-lost-seathe-jon-ronson-mysteries|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}

Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015) concerns the effects of public humiliation in the internet age.{{Cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/jon-ronsons-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed.html|title=Jon Ronson's 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed'|last=Sicha|first=Choire|date=17 April 2015|work=The New York Times| access-date=21 June 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

= Radio =

Ronson's main radio work is the production and presentation of a BBC Radio 4 programme, Jon Ronson on...{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |title=Running Down a Sanity Checklist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/books/the-psychopath-test-by-jon-ronson-review.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=27 November 2012 |date=16 May 2011}} The programme has been nominated for a Sony award four times.{{cite web |title=Simon Jacobs profile |url=http://www.ubcmedia.com/uniqueproductions/people/ |work=UBC Media |access-date=27 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425203722/http://www.ubcmedia.com/uniqueproductions/people/ |archive-date=25 April 2014 }} In August 2008, Radio 4 aired "Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side", a documentary by Jon Ronson about pop star Williams' fascination with UFOs and the paranormal.{{cite web |title=BBC Radio show profile |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/robbieandjonjourney.shtml |publisher=BBC News |access-date=27 November 2012}}

In the early 1990s, Ronson was offered the position of sidekick on Terry Christian's Show on Manchester radio station KFM.{{cite web |title=Aural History: John Ronson |url=http://www.tourdates.co.uk/londontourdates/issue-000/2007/06/15/23-aural-history-john-ronson |work=TourDates |access-date=27 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725110202/http://www.tourdates.co.uk/londontourdates/issue-000/2007/06/15/23-aural-history-john-ronson |archive-date=25 July 2015 |url-status=dead }} Ronson also co-presented a KFM show with Craig Cash, who went on to write and perform in The Royle Family and Early Doors.{{cite web |title=About Jon Ronson |url=http://www.jonronson.com/jon_biog.html |access-date=27 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105225844/http://jonronson.com/jon_biog.html |archive-date=5 January 2010 }}

Ronson contributes to the American radio 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).{{cite web|title=Jon Ronson's segment on This American Life|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/archive?contributor=8996|access-date=3 May 2021|work=This American Life}}

Ronson hosted and wrote the podcast The Butterfly Effect, which was released in November 2017 by Audible and was subsequently made available on other podcasting platforms.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/mrs-fletcher-tom-perrotta-the-butterfly-effect-jon-ronson-porn-mainstream-culture/536220/|title=Jon Ronson and Tom Perrotta Explore the Aftershocks of Porn|last=Gilbert|first=Sophie|date=9 August 2017|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=22 December 2018}} The show concerns internet pornography, and Fabian Thylmann and PornHub's effect on the industry. Ronson subsequently also hosted and wrote the podcast The Last Days of August, released in January 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/11/the-last-days-of-august-review-ames-jon-ronson-podcast-porn-industry |title=The Last Days of August review – unsettling tale of a porn star's demise | Television & radio |work=The Guardian |date=11 January 2019 |access-date=7 April 2019}} Its subject is the 2017 death of pornographic actress August Ames.

Ronson returned to the BBC in 2021 with Things Fell Apart: a podcast on the culture wars for BBC Sounds in a similar format to his previous works for Amazon.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0011ldn |title=Things Fell Apart |publisher=BBC Sounds |date=9 November 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021}}

= Music =

In the late 1980s, Ronson replaced Mark Radcliffe as the keyboard player for the Frank Sidebottom band for a number of performances.{{cite news |last=Ronson |first=Jon |title=Oh blimey! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/may/31/art.popandrock |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 November 2012 |location=London |date=31 May 2006}}

Ronson was the manager of the Manchester indie band The Man from Delmonte (band).{{cite web |last=Mostyn |first=Nicola |title=Mind blowing! |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/entertainment/arts/s/136/136258_mind_blowing.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421045619/http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/entertainment/arts/s/136/136258_mind_blowing.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2013 |work=Manchester Evening News |access-date=27 November 2012 }}

= Television =

Ronson presented the late nineties talk show For the Love of...,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402642 |title=For the Love of... |website=imdb.com}} in which each week he would interview a gathering of guests and experts on different phenomena and conspiracy theories.{{cite web |title=For the Love of... page on JonRonson.com |url=http://www.jonronson.com/for_the_love_of.html |access-date=27 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103034814/http://www.jonronson.com/for_the_love_of.html |archive-date=3 January 2013 }} Ronson has also appeared as a guest on various shows, including Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled.{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/alan_davies_as_yet_untitled/videos/7578/jon_ronson_on_robbie_williams/|title=Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled|website=British Comedy Guide|access-date=13 January 2024}}

= Films =

Ronson sold the film rights to The Men Who Stare at Goats, and subsequently a film of the same name was released in 2009 as a comedy war film directed by Grant Heslov and written by Peter Straughan. According to Ronson's DVD-commentary, the journalist-character Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) did experience some elements of Ronson's self-recounted story from the book. However, unlike Ronson, Wilton was an American from Ann Arbor. Also, unlike Ronson, Wilton went to Iraq.

In the process of visiting the set during the shoot, Ronson began a collaborative writing project with Straughan.The Men Who Stare at Goats, DVD commentary by Jon Ronson. OV 21370. Overture Films, US. 2009. This was the screenplay for Frank, a 2014 black comedy inspired in part by Ronson's time in Frank Sidebottom's band.Donald Clarke, [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2013/0209/1224329817381.html "First get Michael Fassbender for your film. Then give him a giant comedy head"], The Irish Times, 9 February 2013

With Bong Joon-ho, Ronson wrote the screenplay for the 2017 Netflix film Okja.{{Cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-netflixs-okja-trailer-reveals-bong-joon-hos-newest-creature-1004972|title=Cannes: Netflix's 'Okja' Trailer Reveals Bong Joon Ho's Newest Creature|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=21 June 2017|language=en}}

Personal life

Ronson and his wife Elaine have one son.{{cite news |first= Jon |last= Ronson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/jul/28/weekend.jonronson |title=Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword in the world | Life and style |work=The Guardian |date=28 July 2007 |access-date=1 August 2013 |location= London}}

Ronson is [[Jewish{{cite news |last= Ronson |first= Jon |date=21 October 2000 |title=Getting religious with Nicky Gumbel |url= https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/21/weekend7.weekend |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=27 May 2015}} and is a "distinguished supporter" of Humanists UK.{{cite web |url= http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters |title=Distinguished Supporters |website= humanism.org.uk |publisher= British Humanist Association |access-date= 8 June 2010}}{{cite web |url= https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/ |title= Patrons of the BHA| website= humanism.org.uk |publisher=British Humanist Association |access-date=22 May 2015}} He is a fan of the football team Arsenal FC and has spoken of his "adoration" of the club.{{cite web |last=Mangan |first=Andrew |title=Arsene at 1000 + Arsecast 309 with Jon Ronson |date=21 March 2014 |url=http://arseblog.com/2014/03/arsene-at-1000-arsecast-309-with-jon-ronson/ |publisher=Arseblog |access-date=22 March 2014}}

In an interview for Louis Theroux's Grounded podcast, Ronson states that he became a naturalised American citizen in early 2020. Grounded with Louis Theroux, podcast, episode 1 https://pca.st/episode/426a1757-76f1-4dde-8c0b-c548fd461312

Works

= Books =

class="wikitable"
Date first publishedTitlePublisher information
27 October 1994Clubbed ClassPavilion Books Ltd, hardcover, {{ISBN|1-85793-320-6}}
2001Them: Adventures with ExtremistsPicador, hardcover, 2001, {{ISBN|0-330-37545-8}}
Simon & Schuster, hardcover, 2002, {{ISBN|0-7432-2707-7}}
Simon & Schuster, paperback, 1 January 2003, {{ISBN|0-7432-3321-2}}
19 November 2004The Men Who Stare at GoatsPicador, hardcover, {{ISBN|0-330-37547-4}}
3 November 2006Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday CrazinessPicador/Guardian Books, paperback, {{ISBN|0-330-44832-3}}
2 November 2007What I Do: More True Tales Of Everyday CrazinessPicador/Guardian Books, paperback, {{ISBN|0-330-45373-4}}
12 May 2011The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness IndustryRiverhead Books, hardcover, {{ISBN|978-1-59448-801-6}}
22 November 2011The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix JonesRiverhead Books, e-book
30 October 2012Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson MysteriesPenguin Group, hardcover, {{ISBN|978-1-59463-137-5}}
27 March 2014Frank: The True Story that Inspired the MoviePicador, paperback, {{ISBN|978-1-4472-7137-6}}
12 March 2015So You've Been Publicly ShamedPicador, paperback, {{ISBN|978-0-33049-228-7}}
October 2016The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the 'Alt-Right'E-book, Kindle single
October 2017The Butterfly Effectpodcast series
3 January 2019The Last Days of AugustAudible Originals, Audio book
13 April 2023The Debutante: From High Society to White SupremacyAudible Originals, Audio book

= Filmography =

  • The Ronson Mission (1993), BBC 2
  • New York to California: A Great British Odyssey (1996), Channel 4
  • Hotel Auschwitz (1996), BBC Radio 4
  • Tottenham Ayatollah (1997), Channel 4
  • Critical Condition (1997), Channel 4
  • Dr Paisley, I Presume (1998), Channel 4
  • New Klan (1999) Channel 4
  • The Secret Rulers of the World (2001), Channel 4
  • The Double Life of Jonathan King (2002), Channel 4
  • Kidneys for Jesus (2003){{cite AV media |last=Brian Birmingham|title=Kidneys for Jesus|date=28 August 2014 |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovxGA8_uNY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/OovxGA8_uNY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=30 April 2018}}{{cbignore}} Channel 4
  • I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman (2004){{cite AV media |last=MrRandomGuySr |title=I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman |date=15 February 2013 |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KX73Cwx61U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/_KX73Cwx61U |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=30 April 2018}}{{cbignore}} Channel 4
  • Crazy Rulers of the World (2004), Channel 4
  • Part 1: "The Men Who Stare at Goats"{{cite AV media |last=Universal_Eye |title=Crazy Rulers of the World – part 1 – The Men Who Stare At Goats |date=21 December 2013 |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMIvDmWbQs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/CAMIvDmWbQs |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=30 April 2018}}{{cbignore}}
  • Part 2: "Funny Torture"{{cite AV media |last=Universal_Eye|title=Crazy Rulers of the World – Part 2 – Funny Torture |date=14 July 2013 |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUf8KBjKBpM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/QUf8KBjKBpM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=30 April 2018}}{{cbignore}}
  • Part 3: "The Psychic Footsoldiers"{{cite AV media |last=TheDocumentaryChannel103 |title=Channel 4 – Jon Ronson – Crazy Rulers of the World – Episode 3 – The Psychic Footsoldiers (2004) |date=6 May 2014 |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHY7BWo1Q4c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/BHY7BWo1Q4c |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=30 April 2018}}{{cbignore}}
  • Death in Santaland (2007), More 4, about a foiled school shooting plot in the Christmas-themed town of North Pole, Alaska.
  • Reverend Death (2008), Channel 4, about George Exoo, an advocate of euthanasia.{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/R/reverend_death/|title=Reverend Death|work=Channel4.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821032910/http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/R/reverend_death/|archive-date=21 August 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=21 June 2009}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/may/12/mentalhealth.health |title='I make it look like they died in their sleep' |first=Jon |last=Ronson |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 May 2008}}
  • Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008)
  • Revelations (2009)
  • Escape and Control (2011){{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS67CXqxH04 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/ZS67CXqxH04 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Trailer | Escape and Control | Jon Ronson |via=YouTube |date=23 August 2011 |access-date=3 April 2013}}{{cbignore}}
  • Frank (2014)
  • Okja (2017){{cite web | url=http://www.jonronson.com/okja.html |title = Okja |website=jonronson.com| access-date=17 June 2017}}
  • Comrade Detective (2017) as Himself

= Theatre =

References

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External links

{{Wikiquote}}

  • {{Official website}}
  • [http://www.picador.com/Authors/Jon-Ronson Picador] UK publisher's author page
  • [https://archive.today/20140811234440/http://www.jonronson.com/ronsonon.html Jon Ronson On...] radio programme
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonronson Ronson's Column Archive], The Guardian
  • {{TED speaker}}
  • {{C-SPAN|92603}}
  • [http://www.c-span.org/video/?325619-1/depth-jon-ronson In Depth interview with Ronson], 3 May 2015

;Interviews

  • [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/201/Them My friend the extremist: Omar Bakri], This American Life, 7 December 2001
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060813135705/http://dir.salon.com/story/people/conv/2002/03/14/ronson/index.html Interview], Joanna Smith Rakoff, Salon.com, 14 March 2002
  • [http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_men_who_stare_at_goats_jon_ronson.htm Interview], Andrew Lawless, threemonkeysonline.com, February 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050309215651/http://www.rinf.com/articles/jon-ronson-q-a.html Interview], rinf.com, February 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070511214829/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elizabeth.ercocklly/jon.htm Biographical Interview], Anthony Brockway, ntlworld.com, May 2005
  • [http://blip.tv/play/gdw6gcybDgI%2Em4v Video interview]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Robert Llewellyn on Carpool, blip.tv
  • [https://archive.today/20130127213816/http://www.littleatoms.com/jonronson.htm Jon Ronson audio interviews (2005–2009)], littleatoms.com

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