Nick Davies

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

Nick Davies
British Press Awards Reporter of the Year, 2000
Paul Foot Award 2011
Website
www.nickdavies.net

Nicholas Davies (born 28 March 1953[

documentary
maker.

Davies has written extensively as a

British Press Awards.[6]

Davies has made documentaries for

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
.

Career in journalism

Davies gained a

Dispatches. After the London Daily News folded he moved to the United States for a year, where he wrote White Lies, about the wrongful conviction of a black janitor, Clarence Brandley, for the murder of a white girl.[8] From 1989 Davies was a freelance reporter for The Guardian, for which he contributed articles,[9] working from his home in Sussex. He was the winner of the first Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 1999.[10]
In September 2016 he retired, announcing that he would travel in search of interesting experiences. His website states he was last seen somewhere between a yoga shala in Indonesia and a cattle ranch in northern Argentina.

Following the publication of

Metropolitan Police Service had done too little to investigate the claims.[12] The Guardian coverage also led to calls from high-profile MPs for the dismissal of Andy Coulson, communications director for the Conservative Party.[13] Davies received the Paul Foot Award 2011 for his work on this story.[14]

Davies's book on the

Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch, was released in August 2014.[4][15]

Critical reaction to Flat Earth News

Main article:
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

Flat Earth News was greeted in the London Review of Books on its publication as "a genuinely important book, one which is likely to change, permanently, the way anyone who reads it looks at the British newspaper industry".[16] The LRB highlighted the analysis showing that 60% of the content of UK papers was based mainly on wire copy or press releases, a practice Davies called "churnalism", while only 12% are original stories and only 12% of stories showed evidence that the central statement had been corroborated. Mary Riddell in The Observer disputed some of the charges against British journalism in the book, and described it as "unduly pessimistic".[17] Peter Oborne in The Spectator concentrated on the use of illegal techniques to invade privacy rather than declining standards, describing Flat Earth News as "hypnotically readable" and praising the collection of evidence that the practice of journalism is "bent", although qualifying this somewhat by suggesting that Davies "ignores a great deal [of journalism] that is salient and good".[18]

Awards

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7011-6351-8
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  2. ISBN 978-0-09-942216-7
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  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7011-8145-1
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  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-86547-881-7
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  5. ^ a b "British Press Awards: Past winners". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  6. ^ a b "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.
  8. ^ a b Bell, Matthew (12 July 2009). "A burning indignation towards people who abuse power". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022.
  9. ISBN 978-0-7011-8145-1
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  10. ^ a b "The Martha Gellhorn Prize previous winners". Martha Gellhorn Prize. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  11. ^ "News of the World 'bugging' claim". BBC News. 8 July 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
  12. ^ "Paper accused of phone 'cover-up'". BBC News. 14 July 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
  13. ^ Davies, Caroline (9 July 2009). "David Cameron urged to sack Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  14. ^ a b Sabbagh, Dan (29 February 2012). "Nick Davies wins award for hacking exposé". The Guardian. p. 5.
  15. ^ Porter, Henry (3 August 2014). "Hack Attack review – Nick Davies's gripping account of the hacking affair". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  16. ^ Lanchester, John (6 March 2008). "Riots, Terrorism etc". London Review of Books. 30 (5): 3.
  17. ^ Riddell, Mary (3 February 2008). "Failures of the Fourth Estate". The New York Observer. London. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  18. ^ Oborne, Peter (30 January 2008). "The vile behaviour of the press". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009.

External links

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