David McKittrick is a Belfast

Belfast

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-born journalist who has reported on Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 since 1971.

Professional career

McKittrick began his career as a reporter for the East Antrim Times. He joined the Irish Times in 1973 as a reporter in Belfast, becoming Northern editor in 1976 and London

London

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 editor in 1981. He worked briefly for BBC

BBC

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 Northern Ireland between 1985 and 1986, before joining The Independent

The Independent

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. He has since worked as the paper's Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 correspondent.

Widely recognised by those with a similar point-of-view for the scope of his knowledge and the balance of his reporting on Northern Ireland, he contributes regularly to overseas newspapers and journals. His many awards include the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize

Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize

The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize was created in 1977, in memory of Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1976....

 for the promotion of peace and understanding in Northern Ireland, 1989 and 2001; Correspondent of the Year, 1999; and the 2000 Orwell Prize

Orwell Prize

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 for Journalism.

Selected works

• "Endgame in Ireland" (1994),
• "The Fight for Peace" (with Éamon Mallie, 1994),
• "Lost Lives" (with Séamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton, 1999),
• "Making Sense of the Troubles" (with David McVea, 2000).

See also

• History of Northern Ireland
  History of Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland is today one of the four countries of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, having been created as a separate legal entity on 3 May 1921, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920...
  
  
• List of Northern Irish writers
• The Irish Times
  The Irish Times
  The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...
  
  
• The Independent
  The Independent
  The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...