Peter David (journalist)
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September 7, 1951
Johannesburg, South Africa
Charlottesville, Virginia
Peter David | |
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| Born | Peter Howard David September 7, 1951 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Died | May 10, 2012 (aged 60) Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer (The Economist Washington bureau chief) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of London |
| Period | 1972–2012 |
| Spouse | Celia Binns |
| Children | 2 |
Peter David (September 7, 1951 – May 10, 2012) was the Washington bureau chief and primary U.S. political correspondent for The Economist, the U.K.-based weekly magazine, with which he worked for his last 28 years. He supervised coverage of the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s and became the magazine's foreign editor from 2002 to 2009, covering the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. David also previously authored the "Bagehot" column on British politics, before finally moving to the U.S. to author the "Lexington" column on American politics.
Peter David was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to a family of Lithuanian Jews who had settled in South Africa decades earlier to escape pogroms. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a left-wing political activist who fought against the apartheid government. After the Sharpeville massacre there in 1960, where 69 people were killed by police, she feared arrest and the family relocated to London within days. They eventually settled in Liverpool.[1]
After graduating from the University of London in 1972, where he studied sociology, he took jobs as a journalist for various magazines, among those were journals covering house plants and UFOs.[2]
