Nick Davies
Summary
Nick Davies is a British investigative journalist, writer and documentary maker. He has written extensively as a freelancer as well as for The Guardian and The Observer, and been named Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards. He was the winner of the first Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 1999. Davies has 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. Davies gained a PPE degree from Oxford University in 1974, and started his journalism career in 1976, working as a trainee for The Mirror Group in Plymouth.
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Observer: Readers' editor defends paper's use of private investigator
Earlier this month, Journalism. co. uk reported that the Observer would be seeking to distinguish between the case of 'Operation Motorman' and the phone-hacking scandal, after ‘confusion in the media’.
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Dinner with Julian Assange
This Wednesday at 6:30pm, “people from around the world” will reportedly “commence dining” in what appears to be a fundraising initiative from under-siege whistleblowers’ site WikiLeaks.
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News of the World phone-hacking - the Press Gazette interactive timeline
Four years after Goodman and Mulcaire did their time for illegally listening to voicemail messages, the row over phone-hacking at the News of the World is rumbling on – if anything – with renewed vigour. The story has been fuelled all along the way with some dogged reporting by The Guardian starting with Nick Davies’ [.
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WikiLeaks: The Guardian's role in the biggest leak in the history of the world
In an extract from WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy, the Guardian's editor-in-chief explains why Assange remains such an important figure - and why the story is destined to run and run.
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Glover's shock confession: 'I admire Nick Davies'
The Independent's media commentator Stephen Glover (left) once described Nick Davies as "the sort of journalist who can find a scandal in a jar of tadpoles" but today he admits his admiration for the Guardian journalist's reporting of the News of the World phone hacking story. Glover writes in the Independent today: "This scandal might never have resurfaced had it not been for the Guardian's Nick Davies, who in July 2009 revealed that News International had paid £700,000 to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballer's Association, because the News of the World had hacked into his phone.
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Quotes of the week: Coulson moves on and why BBC staff should hide the Mail in the Guardian
Andy Coulson: "I stand by what I've said about those events but when the spokesman needs a spokesman it's time to move on. "Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger on Coulson resigning: "This is the result of first class investigative reporting by one Guardian reporter, Nick Davies, sustained over a very long period of time.
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Murdoch acts decisively - but does he know the truth about hacking?
Today, with Murdoch at News International's Wapping plant, he showed that he is determined to deal, at last, with the continuing bad publicity over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
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Q&A: News of the World phone hacking
Why Andy Coulson's resignation as David Cameron's director of communications is not the end of the story.
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Alan Rusbridger on Coulson resignation: 'This is not the end of the story'
Editor in chief of Guardian News & Media Alan Rusbridger released a statement today following the resignation of former News of the World editor Andy Coulson from his position as director of communications for Downing Street.
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Guardian in phone hacking advert shocker!
Here's one for Media Monkey - Media Guardian carrying ads on how to tap mobile phones, linked to its stories about the News of the World phone hacking scandal. It was spotted by Patrick Smith who writes on his blog: "It does show the danger of auto-serving ad systems. " Quite right, get Nick Davies to investigate.
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