David McKittrick, Esq

Career: reporter East Antrim Times 1971-73; Irish Times: reporter Belfast 1973-76, Northern ed 1976-81, London ed 1981-85; journalist BBC Belfast 1985-86, Ireland corr The Independent 1986-; sometime Ireland corr: Sunday Times, Economist, Le Monde; contrib: Fortnight, Listener, New Statesman, Hibernia, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, New York Times; numerous TV broadcasts; co-recipient Christopher Ewart-Biggs meml prize 1989, Irish media award for reporting on Ireland for a pubn abroad 1987, runner-up Reporter of the Year Br Press Awards 1987; memb: NUJ 1971, Exec Br-Irish Assoc

Books and Publications: Despatches from Belfast (1989), Endgame (1994), The Nervous Peace (1996), The Fight for Peace (with Eamonn Maille, 1996)