Donald Macintyre is a British freelance journalist and author, formerly a political editor and foreign correspondent on ''

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Education

Macintyre was educated at

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, and obtained a post-graduate diploma from the

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Journalism career

After working at the Birmingham ''

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'', Macintyre moved to the ''

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'' as an industrial reporter, subsequently becoming Labour Editor at ''

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'' and ''

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''. As Labour Editor at ''The Times'', he did not go to

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transferred production there in January 1986, later that year joining ''The Independent'' before its launch with his two fellow NUJ "refuseniks" on the labour staff, David Felton and Barrie Clement. He joined ''

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'' as Political Editor in 1987, leaving it for the short-lived ''

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'' in 1990 before joining first ''

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'' and then ''

'' as Political Editor (1993–96), Chief Political Commentator (1996–2004) and Parliamentary Sketchwriter and columnist (2012–2015). Macintyre was the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for ''The Independent'' (2004–12), mainly covering Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories but also travelling to Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan and Libya for the newspaper.

Prizes

*2011 Next Century Foundation's Peace Through Media Award

Publications

;Books * ''Talking about Trade Unions'', Wayland, 29 November 1979; * (Co-author) ''Strike: Thatcher, Scargill and the Miners'' Peter Wilsher, Donald Macintyre and Michael Jones Deutsch, September 1985, * ''Mandelson: And the Making of New Labour'', HarperCollins; New Edition (18 September 2000), * ''Gaza: Preparing for Dawn'', October 2017,

References

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