- David Pallister
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David Pallister is a British investigative journalist. He worked on The Guardian for many years, specializing in miscarriages of justice, the arms trade, corruption in international business and British and international politics, terrorism and terrorist financing (post 9/11), mercenaries, race relations and Africa. For ten years from 1983 he was the London-based correspondent for Nigeria, as well as covering the Shouf war in the Lebanon, the Ethiopian famine and the Sri Lankan civil war. His early work for the Guardian from 1975 is available on the Guardian's digital archive site at guardian.co.uk/archive.
Pallister was centrally involved as a personal libel defendant in the dénouement of Jonathan Aitken, causing Aitken to be convicted and jailed for perjury.[1]
He was a member of the Guardian teams for the British Press Awards for the Neil Hamilton Affair (1997) and the Aitken case (1998). He won a Project Censored Award from Sonoma State University (2002, with Greg Palast) on the failure of the FBI to investigate the Bin Laden family. In 1999 his reporting of the Stephen Lawrence case was shortlisted for the Commission for Racial Equality media award.
He is the author (with Sarah Stewart and Ian Lepper) of South Africa Inc.: The Oppenheimer Empire (Simon & Schuster 1987). He helped Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four with his autobiography, Proved Innocent, (Hamish Hamilton 1990).
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