Phillip Knightley

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Phillip Knightley (born January 23, 1929 in Sydney , † December 7, 2016 ) was an Australian journalist , critic and author of non-fiction. He was visiting professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln , England, and media expert on intelligence and propaganda.

Life

Phillip Knightley began his career in 1946 as a runner with the Sydney Daily Telegraph . Two years as a reporter for The Northern Star (Lismore) followed. He then interrupted his journalism career to become a copra dealer in the Fiji Islands. He then joined the editorial team of the Oceania Daily News (Suva), a newspaper that prides itself on being "the world's first newspaper" because Suva is on the international date line.

Knightley returned to Australia and worked for The Herald in Melbourne. He came to the Daily Mirror in Sydney in 1952 and reported on Queen Elizabeth's visit to Australia in 1953 . In November 1954 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mirror . He then became editor-in-chief of Imprint , a literary magazine in Bombay ( Mumbai ).

From 1965 to 1985 he was special correspondent for the Sunday Times in London. During this time he was a member of the investigative team "Insight".

He has written critical articles for the Mail on Sunday (London), The Independent (London), The Australian's Review of Books , The Age (Melbourne), and the New York Review of Books , among others .

He has lectured on journalism at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra, the Australian Senate, City University, London, the University of Manchester, Pennsylvania State University, the University of California Los Angeles, Stanford University, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst , at the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the University of Düsseldorf.

Knightley's main topics were war reporting , propaganda and espionage . Over the past 30 years he has met with most of the spy chiefs of the world's major intelligence agencies and interviewed large numbers of staff and agents from all political backgrounds during and after the Cold War . In December 2010, he was the subject of media reports for bailing Julian Assange's bail. He lost his money in 2012 when Assange evaded the reach of English jurisdiction by seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy.

In 1997 Knightley was a member of the jury for the Lionel Gelber Prize , the Canadian literary prize , which honors the best non-fiction book on international issues. He was the representative of Europe in the international " Consortium of Investigative Journalists ".

Knightley was married and had two daughters and a son. He lived in London, Sydney and Goa in India.

Prizes and awards

  • 1980, 1988 - British Press Awards Journalist of the Year - Knightley was one of two journalists to have received the award twice
  • 1982 - British Color Magazine Writer of the Year
  • 1983 - British Chef and Brewer Crime Writer's award - for solving a murder case in Italy
  • 1980 - Granada Television Reporter of the Year
  • 1975 - Overseas Press Club of America Award for The First Casualty for best book on international politics.
  • 2006 - City University, London , Artes Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) for his achievements in journalism and communication.
  • 2007 - University of Sydney , Australia, Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) for his achievements in journalism and communication

Publications

  • The first casualty. From the Crimea to Vietnam: the war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth maker. 1975, about war and propaganda. ISBN 0-15-131264-8 .
  • The first casualty. The War Correspondent As Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 2002, ISBN 0-8018-6951-X .
  • The first casualty. The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq. 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 0-8018-8030-0 .
  • The Second Oldest Profession. 1986, about espionage. ISBN 0-393-02386-9 .
  • Philby, KGB Master Spy. A biography of Kim Philby. ISBN 0-394-57890-2 .
  • An affair of state. On the John Profumo Scandal (1963), publication was banned in the UK.
  • with Colin Simpson: The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia. OCLC 57525 .
  • The Pearl of Days. Hamilton, London 1972, ISBN 0-241-02266-5 , The Sunday Times Story.
  • Suffer the Children. about the thalidomide disaster.
  • The Death of Venice. ISBN 0-275-22920-3 , on attempts to save Venice.
  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Vestey. About the company that Sir William (later Baron) Vestey founded in 1897.
  • A hack's progress. J. Cape, London 1997, ISBN 0-224-04399-4 , his autobiography.
  • Australia. A Biography of a Nation. Jonathan Cape, London 2000, ISBN 0-224-05006-0 .
  • with Sarah Jackson, Annabel Merullo; John Keegan (Introduction): The Eye of War. Words and Photographs from the Front Line. Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC. 2003, ISBN 1-58834-165-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/phillip-knightley-obituary
personal data
SURNAME Knightley, Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian journalist, critic and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2016