Nick Davies

Not to be confused with Daily Mirror foreign editor Nicholas Davies or the leading behavioural ecologist Professor Nicholas Davies.

Nick Davies
Davies in 2017
Davies in 2017
Born28 March 1953 (1953-03-28) (age 71)
OccupationJournalist, writer, documentary maker
NationalityBritish
Period1976–present
GenreJournalism, politics
Notable worksDark Heart: The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain (1998)[1]
The School Report (2000)[2]
Flat Earth News (2008)[3]
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch (2014)[4]
Notable awardsMartha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism 1999
British Press Awards Reporter of the Year, 2000
Paul Foot Award 2011
Website
www.nickdavies.net

Nicholas Davies (born 28 March 1953[citation needed]) is a British investigative journalist, writer, and documentary maker.

Davies has written extensively as a freelancer, as well as for The Guardian and The Observer, and been named Reporter of the Year,[5] Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards.[6]

Davies has made documentaries for ITV's World in Action [citation needed] and written numerous books on the subject of politics and journalism, including Flat Earth News,[3] which attracted considerable controversy as an exposé of journalistic malpractice in the UK and around the globe.[7] As a reporter for The Guardian, Davies was responsible for uncovering the News of the World phone hacking scandal, including the July 2011 revelations of hacking into the mobile phone voicemail of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

  1. ^ Davies, Nick (1997). Dark heart: the shocking truth about hidden Britain. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-6351-8.
  2. ^ Davies, Nick (2000). The school report: why Britain's schools are failing. London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-09-942216-7.
  3. ^ a b Davies, Nicholas (2008). Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-8145-1.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Davies_HackAttack_2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "British Press Awards: Past winners". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  6. ^ "The 7.30 Report – Media industry in crisis as standards decline: Davies". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 August 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  7. ^ "Author Details for Nick Davies". Random House. Retrieved 20 August 2009.