Contents.Career in journalism Davies gained a degree from in 1974, and started his journalism career in 1976, working as a trainee for the in. He then moved to London initially to work for the and spent a year working for before becoming a news reporter at in July 1979. Since then he has worked as correspondent at; chief feature writer at in 1986 and on-screen reporter for and 's.
Organizational press releases' influence on news media's agenda and content. Davies, Nick. Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion. Epub ahead of print 30 June 2016.
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, for the murder of a white girl. From 1989 Davies was a freelance reporter for, for which contributed articles, working from his home in Sussex. He was the winner of the first in 1999. 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 Flat Earth News and a Guardian story co-written by Davies claiming that to get stories, on 14 July 2009 Davies told the that the had done too little to investigate the claims. The Guardian coverage also led to calls from high-profile MPs for the dismissal of, communications director for the.
Davies received the 2011 for his work on this story.Davies's book on the, was released in August 2014. Critical reaction to Flat Earth News Flat Earth News was greeted in the 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'. The LRB highlighted the analysis showing that 60% of the content of UK papers was based mainly on or press releases, a practice Davies called ', while only 12% are original stories and only 12% of stories showed evidence that the central statement had been corroborated. In disputed some of the charges against British journalism in the book, and described it as 'unduly pessimistic'. In 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'.
Awards. Reporter of the Year, 2000; Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year., 1999.
2011, for a series of articles that helped to expose the scale of. (Davies was also nominated for the award the previous year.)Bibliography. White Lies: The True Story of Clarence Brandley, Presumed Guilty in the American South (1991). Murder on Ward Four: The Story of Bev Allitt and the Most Terrifying Crime Since the Moors Murders (1993). Dark Heart: The Shocking Truth About Hidden Britain (1998).
The School Report: Why Britain’s Schools Are Failing (2000). Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (2008). (2014)See also.References.
Archived from on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009. ^. Retrieved 20 August 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009. ^ Matthew Bell (12 July 2009). London.
Davies, Nick (2008). Flat Earth News.
Martha Gellhorn Prize. Retrieved 20 August 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2009. 14 July 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2009. Davies, Caroline (9 July 2009). The Guardian.
Retrieved 29 September 2009. ^ Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, 29 February 2012, p.5. (3 August 2014).
Retrieved 4 September 2014. (6 March 2008). 30 (5): 3. Mary Riddell (3 February 2008).
The New York Observer. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
Peter Oborne (30 January 2008). The Spectator. Archived from on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009.External links. official website. on. at.
at. on., official book website. in libraries ( catalog)., The Third Estate, 7 September 2009., BBC Radio 4, 9 July 2011.
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