Nick Davies

Nick Davies is the kind of journalist I admire most: patient, methodical, and allergic to spectacle. An Oxford-trained Briton who built his name through dogged investigative work rather than personality, he reminds us that the best reporting is slow, unglamorous, and morally serious. The 1999 Martha Gellhorn Prize, named for a legendary war correspondent, is no trinket. I respect writers who treat exposing the powerful as a craft to be perfected over decades, not a viral moment to chase. Davies feels like a custodian of that older, sturdier idea of what the press is for, and the trade is better for him.

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Name (English)

Nick Davies

Name (Japanese)

ニック・デービス (記者)

Reading

にっく・でーびす

Born

1953

Occupation

journalist / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Snake

University

University of Oxford

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
• 2010 Paul Foot Award
• 2016 honorary doctorate

• Official sitehttp://www.nickdavies.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/Bynickdavies
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Davies
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7026991

Tags

• journalist
• author

Last updated

September 23, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.