David Bergman (journalist)

David Bergman
Bornc. 1965
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
OccupationJournalist
Known for
SpouseSara Hossain
RelativesKamal Hossain (father in-law)
AwardsRoyal Television Society

David Bergman (born c. 1965)[1][2] is a British investigative journalist.[3] Bergman has worked for Bangladeshi and British newspapers. He was first known in Bangladesh for his reporting on war crimes committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. An investigative documentary on the subject he worked as a reporter and researcher for British television in 1995 won an award.[4][5] Twenty years later, he was convicted of contempt of court by Bangladesh's special war crimes tribunal in 2015 for contradicting the official death toll of the war.[6][7][8] Bergman has also contributed to The New York Times and Foreign Policy.

Bergman is a former editor[9] and contributor to Netra News,[10] a Bangladeshi news website funded by National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-government, bipartisan, US-based organisation, funded by the US Congress and based in Sweden.[11] He was interviewed for the Al Jazeera documentary All the Prime Minister's Men, which the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the report a "smear campaign".[12]

Bergman was once the executive director of the Centre for Corporate Accountability, which promoted the enactment of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 in the United Kingdom.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference thetimesplot was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Court to Hear Man's Plea on Bhopal". The Sydney Morning Herald. Reuters. 30 October 1986.
  3. ^ "The Guardian". theguardian.com.
  4. ^ Khan, Tamanna (20 April 2012). "Defender of Justice". Star Weekend Magazine. The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Bangladesh files contempt case against British reporter". Dawn. Agence France-Presse. 18 April 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference convicted2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Greenslade, Roy, "British journalist found guilty of contempt in Bangladesh: He is fined for 'examining' 1971 war statistics," 2 December 2014, The Guardian, retrieved 30 March 2019
  8. ^ "British journalist found guilty of contempt by Bangladesh court for questioning war death toll: David Bergman 'did not have the right' to examine the figures, it ruled," 2 December 2014, The Independent, retrieved 30 March 2020
  9. ^ Bergman, David. "Bergman leaving editorial position at Netra News".
  10. ^ Bergman, David. "Bergman Netra News Page".
  11. ^ "ABOUT". 25 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Ministry of Foreign Affairs".