John Pilger - Investigative Journalist
John Pilger makes shocking documentaries and researches the material thoroughly. He is a true journalist who sticks by his principles, and remarkably his films are funded and shown on ITV. His career spans back to 1958, working for many major media outlets as a reporter and war correspondent, and he has won many awards for his work. I have a lot of respect for him, he has a history of challenging the injustice our governments inflict, and takes up the stories of victims who have no voice in the mainstream media. The most shocking film for me is 'Stealing a Nation' which filled me with absolute outrage and I think everyone should see this disgusting part of our heritage. I will be devoting a section of the site to this in the near future, these people need justice now, and I cannot imagine anybody thinking that this situation is ok.
Career
1958 - 62 Reporter, freelance writer, sports writer and sub-editor - Daily & Sunday Telegraph, Sydney
1962 Freelance correspondent - Italy 1962
1962 - 63 Middle East desk, Reuter, London
1963 - 86 Reporter, sub-editor, feature writer and Chief Foreign Correspondent - Daily Mirror
1986 - 88 Editor-in-Chief and a founder, News on Sunday, London
1969 - 71 Reporter, World in Action, Granada Television
1974 - 81 Reporter/Producer, Associated Television
1981 - Documentary film-maker, Central and Carlton Television
Accredited war correspondent Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Biafra, Middle East
Contributor
BBC Television Australia, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, London Broadcasting, ABC Television, ABC Radio Australia
Publications
Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation: New York, The Age: Melbourne, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin: Sydney, plus French, Italian, Scandinavian, Canadian, Japanese and other newspapers and periodicals.
Books
The Last Day (1975), Aftermath: The Stuggles of Cambodia and Vietnam (1981), The Outsiders (1984), Heroes (1986), A Secret Country (1989), Distant Voices (1992 and 1994), Hidden Agendas (1998) and The New Rulers of the World (2002).
Play
The Last Day (1983)
Honours
D. Litt, Staffordshire University
D. Phil, Dublin City University
D. Arts, Oxford Brookes University
D. Laws, St.Andrew's University
D. Phil, Kingston University
D. Univ, The Open University
1995 Edward Wilson Fellow, Deakin University, Melbourne
Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor, Cornell University, USA
Awards include
1966 Descriptive Writer of the Year
1967 Reporter of the Year
1967 Journalist of the Year
1970 International Reporter of the Year
1974 News Reporter of the Year
1977 Campaigning Journalist of the Year
1979 Journalist of the Year
1979-80 UN Media Peace Prize, Australia
1980-81 UN Media Peace Prize, Gold Medal, Australia
1979 TV Times Readers' Award
1990 The George Foster Peabody Award, USA
1991 American Television Academy Award ('Emmy')
1991 British Academy of Film and Television Arts - The Richard Dimbleby Award
1990 Reporters San Frontiers Award, France
1995 International de Television Geneve Award
2001 The Monismanien Prize (Sweden)
2003 The Sophie Prize for Human Rights (Norway)
2003 EMMA Media Personality of the Year
2004 Royal Television Society Best Documentary 'Stealing a Nation'
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