David Pratt (journalist)

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David Pratt is a journalist and author, foreign editor for the Sunday Herald. He has been a foreign correspondent for over twenty years. As a reporter, photojournalist and TV cameraman, He has worked for Reuters, Agence France Presse, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting {iwpr} and is a regular contributor to Scottish Television and BBC radio on conflict and foreign affairs issues.

He has covered wars in Bosnia, Afghanistan - where he once had tea with Osama bin Laden - Iraq, Israel /Palestine, Haiti, and across Africa, including Liberia, Congo, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Sudan and Somalia. While Foreign Editor of the Sunday Herald, the newspaper has three times won the 'Best Foreign Coverage Award' in the Newspaper of the Year Awards.

David Pratt has also been twice shortlisted as Reporter of the Year in the Scottish Press Awards, for his coverage of the wars in Afghanistan, and Iraq, and the Amnesty International Media Awards for his reporting on human rights issues in Africa.

His first book - Intifada: ' The Long Day of Rage' will be published in October 2006.