Nick Davies

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(investigative journalist)
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Born28 March 1953
NationalityUK

Nicholas Davies is a British investigative journalist, writer and documentary maker who has written extensively as a freelancer, as well as for The Guardian and The Observer, and been named "Reporter of the Year",[1] "Journalist of the Year" and "Feature Writer of the Year" at the British Press Awards.[2]

Publications

Nick Davies made documentaries for ITV's World in Action and written numerous books on the subject of politics and journalism, including Flat Earth News, which attracted considerable controversy as an exposé of journalistic malpractice in the UK and around the globe.[3]

Phone hacking affair

As a reporter for The Guardian, Davies was responsible for uncovering the News of the World phone hacking affair, including the July 2011 revelations of hacking into the mobile phone voicemail of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.[4]

 

A Document by Nick Davies

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Tiny Rowland – portrait of the bastard as a rebelArticleAugust 1990MI6
Nicholas Elliott
Edward Heath
Tiny Rowland
Lonrho
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Alan Bond
Robert Holmes à Court
Harrods
Oswald Mosley
All big entrepreneurs have the stink of unpopularity around them. Whether it is through envy or sincere distaste, Donald Trump, James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Richard Branson have all become popular figures of hate. The one characteristic that has marked out Tiny Rowland is his lack of respect for authority.

 

Quotes by Nick Davies

PageQuoteDateSource
Richard Branson“All big entrepreneurs have the stink of unpopularity around them. Whether it is through envy or sincere distaste, Donald Trump, James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Richard Branson have all become popular figures of hate.”August 1990Document:Tiny Rowland – portrait of the bastard as a rebel
Keenie Meenie Services“The new company first struck gold in Oman where Walker landed a lucrative contract to train and supervise the special forces of the new sultan. He had just deposed his despotic father in a bloodless coup which was led by two British SAS veterans who had personally confronted the old sultan in his palace and told him he must go. The KMS contract was a million-dollar thank-you from the new sultan, and it effectively established KMS as a permanent military presence in the Middle East, giving British intelligence a foot in the door of a country which has become strategically vital during the Gulf War.”1988
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References

  1. "British Press Awards: Past winners". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009. Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  2. "The 7.30 Report – Media industry in crisis as standards decline: Davies". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 20 August 2009.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  3. "Author Details for Nick Davies". Random House. Retrieved 20 August 2009.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. "Three awards in two days for Guardian's Nick Davies"
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