Nick Davies (1953) es un periodista de investigación que escribe regularmente desde hace años en The Guardian. Tras lograr el título de Filosofía, Política y Economía en la Universidad de Oxford, empezó a dedicarse al periodismo en 1976. Ha colaborado en diversos diarios británicos, como The Evening Standard, The Observer o The Guardian. También ha hecho reportajes periodísticos para la televisión y ha publicado diversos libros, entre los que destacan Dark Heart y Flat Earth News. Su labor informativa ha sido reconocida con diversos galardones entre los que destacan el de Periodista del Año, concedido en 2000 por la prensa británica, o el Martha Gellhorn Prize.
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Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider.After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes
'Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of off-the-record sources, Davies uncovered the story of the prestigious "Sunday" newspaper which allowed the CIA and MI6 to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom which routinely rejects stories about black people; the respected paper that hired a professional fraudster to set up a front company to entrap senior political figures; the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes to bent detectives.Davies names names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. He shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat - from the millennium bug to the WMD in Iraq - tainting government policy, perverting popular belief. He presents a new model for understanding news. With the help of researchers from Cardiff University, who ran a ground-breaking analysis of our daily news, Davies found most reporters, most of the time, are not allowed to dig up stories or check their facts - a profession corrupted at the core. Read all about it. The news will never look the same again.
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING TRUE STORY BEHIND ITVS THE HACK**WITH EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE, THIS IS THE UPDATED EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE PHONE HACKING SCANDALCrime, conspiracy, abuse of power this is the inside story of the scandal that blew the lid off Rupert Murdochs empire. Nearly twenty years since one of Murdochs reporters was caught eavesdropping on Buckingham Palace, the revelations keep coming. And Nick Davies is still digging out new evidence.Hack Attack is the story of how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities took on one of the most powerful men in the world and uncovered a web of crime and cover-up reaching from the Murdoch newsrooms to Scotland Yard and Downing Street. It was a scandal that shocked the British elite. And its not over yet.A colossal service to Britains democracyFinancial TimesAs exciting as a thriller but far more importantDaily TelegraphA masterly summary of the hacking affair, as well as the ingenuity and persistence that lead to great journalismObserver
"Esta es una historia sobre el poder y la verdad. Para ser más precisos, sobre el abuso de poder y sobre los secretos y mentiras que lo protegen". Muchas veces las noticias más explosivas comienzan con las informaciones mas insignificantes. Pero para llegar a ellas es necesario algo mas que ser un buen periodista: hace falta valor e integridad. Todas estas cualidades las reune Nick Davies, que consiguio sacar a la luz uno de los mayores escandalos informativos que han existido. Esta es la cronica de como Rupert Murdoch, uno de los hombres mas poderosos del mundo, y su empresa News International fueron desenmascarados, tras hacer caer una gigantesca red de delitos, mentiras y desinformacion.