Nick Davies



Profile:
Full name: Nick Davies

Area of interest: Social issues, Media distortion

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:mail@nickdavies.net mail@nickdavies.net]; FlatEarthNews.net: contact

Personal website: http://www.nickdavies.net

Website: Nick Davies.net | Guardian.co / Nick Davies

Blog: http://www.flatearthnews.net/blog | http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nick_davies/index.html

Representation: the reading agency

Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/Bynickdavies



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Education: Buckingham grammar school; Stowe school, Buckinghamshire; University College, Oxford: Politics, Philosophy and Economics (BA)

Career: Mirror Group training scheme, 1976/1978; Evening Standard: reporter, Londoners' Diary, 1978/1979; The Guardian: news reporter, 1979/1984; The Observer: home affairs correspondent, 1984/1986; London Daily News: chief feature writer, 1986/1987; Scotsman and New Zealand Dominion: Washington columnist, 1987/1989; The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Melbourne Age: features writer, 1989/1999

Current position/role: The Guardian: special correspondent


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Broadcast media: Reporter for World in Action, Dispatches, BBC Everyman; Screenwriter: The Kingdom; Consultant/researcher: ‘Captain Jack’, feature film for Granada Films, ‘Deadly Voyage’, for Granada Films and HBO

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Awards/Honours: Crime Reporter of the Year, 1980; Reporter of the Year (Commended), 1981; Reporter of the Year, (Commended), 1982; Campaigning Journalist of the Year, (Commended), 1983; Magazine Writer of the Year, (Commended), 1991; Feature Writer of the Year, (Commended), 1993; Feature Writer of the Year, 1997; Reporter of the Year, 1998; Journalist of the Year, 1998; Europe Prize: Journalism for a Changing World, 2004

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Books & Debate:

 * White Lies: rape, murder, and justice, Texas style OCLC 22731928, 1991
 * Murder on Ward Four: the story of Bev Allitt and the most terrifying crime since the Moors Murders OCLC 29471538, 1993
 * Dark Heart: the shocking truth about hidden Britain OCLC 38112662, 1997
 * The school report: why Britain's schools are failing OCLC 59507884, 2000

Latest work: Flat Earth News: falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media OCLC 176826415, 2008
 * (audio clip of Nick Davies talking to Journalist editor Tim Gopsill about why he wrote the book)

Speaking/Appearances:
 * Frontline Confidential with Nick Davies: Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media Wednesday 27th February, 2008 (log in or register to watch VIDEO)
 * Miller's Academy, London - Tuesday 8th April 2008 - 7:30 pm

Current debate:"Nick is available to promote his explosive, controversial and timely book. Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies explores today’s media and is available to promote his book in libraries and reading groups." - visit: the reading agency 

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Role: Special correspondent

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Email: [mailto:nick.davies@guardian.co.uk nick.davies@guardian.co.uk]

Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/nickdavies

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Articles:

 * At this election, British politicians can afford to speak out against Rupert Murdoch - In the past all parties have played it safe, but after the phone-hacking scandal, with its exposure of the abuse of power, they have nothing to lose but their fear - 6th April 2015
 * Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power - Rupert Murdoch's money washed through the 'trial of the century' like a Rolls-Royce. The story behind the News of the World scandal was not about journalists behaving badly, but the power of money and its abuses - 25th June 2014
 * Who should judge whether Snowden's leaked secrets are too sensitive to report? - The Guardian's critics say journalists cannot be trusted to judge what may damage national security. But our track record shows us to be more trustworthy than politicians or spooks - 14th October 2013
 * Leveson inquiry: the dark heart of this strange affair - For the first time we have evidence of the Murdochs exploiting their position to apparently win favours from governments - 25th April 2012


 * Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims (Guardian exclusive: News of the World phone-hacking) - News of the World bugging led to £700,000 payout to PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor - 9th July 2009
 * Trail of hacking and deceit under nose of Tory PR chief - Nick Davies on how the News of the World was involved in illegal activity, from intercepting phone messages to buying confidential personal data - 7th July 2009
 * The law on phone hacking - Regulatory and Investigatory Powers Act, under which Clive Goodman was jailed, has no public interest exemption - 8th July 2009
 * Can the police and the media trust each other? - Why did it take six days and citizen journalism to shed light on Ian Tomlinson's death? Nick Davies examines the role of the Independent Police Complaints Commission and asks who the media can trust - 27th April 2009
 * Switzerland starts slow retreat over banking secrecy and tax evasion - The decision to play by international tax rules is a major victory, but the long struggle to persuade the Swiss to abandon their banking secrecy is not yet over - 13th March 2009
 * Tax havens may face sanctions for not giving data on evaders - Overseas territories refusing to hand over information face blacklisting by world's most powerful countries - 2nd March 2009
 * The Swiss whistleblower - The Guardian interviews Rudolf Elmer at his hideaway in Mauritius (Former Swiss bank Executive Rudolf Elmer) VIDEO (2min 01sec), 13th February 2009 [see Wikileaks site: Rudolf Elmer]
 * Brown backs international action on tax avoiders - Prime minister expects countries to begin releasing information on tax dodgers once US case resolved - 5th February 2009
 * Flat Earth News - Review: Flat Earth News by Nick Davies - An act of cannibalism that is as hungry for facts as it is gamily delicious, says Victoria Segal - 20th December 2008
 * end of digging'' - As the Jersey case shows, the modern media never lets the pursuit of fact get in the way of a good story- 14th November 2008
 * 'It started with a piece of bone' - and a dog'' - In the Jersey care home story, journalists were jumping to conclusions based on fragments of evidence - 5th May 2008
 * How the spooks took over the news - In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale - The Independent, 11th February 2008
 * Our media have become mass producers of distortion - an industry whose task shoud be to filter out falsehood has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news - 4th February 2008



News & updates:

 * Nick Davies wins Paul Foot award for hacking exposé - Guardian reporter praised for long investigation into tabloid phone hacking - The Guardian, 28th February 2012



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 * of the Fourth Estate'' - Flat Earth News by Nick Davies turns the spotlight on the workings of the press, says Mary Riddell
 * vile behaviour of the press'' - Peter Oborne of The Spectator on Flat Earth News