Nick Fielding is a British investigative journalist.

Journalism

Nick Fielding is a former senior reporter on

the Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...

and was chief investigative reporter on the

Mail on Sunday ''The Mail on Sunday'' is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. It is the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the UK and was launched in 1982 by Lord Rothermere. Its sister paper, the ''Daily Mail'', was first pub ...

. At the MoS he broke the story of the renegade MI5 officer

David Shayler David Shayler (; born 24 December 1965) is a former British MI5 officer and a conspiracy theorist. Shayler was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for passing secret documents to ''The Mail on Sunday'' in August 1997 that alleged tha ...

, and for the Sunday Times he covered the story of

Richard Tomlinson Richard John Charles Tomlinson (born 13 January 1963) is a former officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He argued that he was subjected to unfair dismissal from MI6 in 1995, and attempted to take his former employer to a ...

, an MI6 whistleblower (Fielding is the author of the introduction to Tomlinson's book The Big Breach). Fielding exposed the use of child labour in Bangladesh by Levis and in India by C&A. Tory minister

Michael Mates Michael John Mates (born 9 June 1934) is a Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of East Hampshire from 1974 to 2010. He was a minister at the Northern Ireland Office from 1992 to 1993, resignin ...

was forced to resign after Fielding revealed he had given fugitive financier Asil Nadir an inscribed watch. At the Sunday Times he played a significant role in the recovery of a stolen Enigma coding machine from Bletchley Park. Together with al-Jazeera journalist

Yosri Fouda Yosri Fouda ( ar, يسري فودة ', ), is an Egyptian investigative reporter, author, and television host. He established Al Jazeera's office in London and was one of the star figures in the channel until he resigned in 2009. Fouda also worked ...

he reported the only interviews ever freely given by the main organisers of the 9/11 attacks on America –

Ramzi bin al-Shibh Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh ( ar, رمزي محمد عبدالله بن الشيبة; also transliterated as bin al-Shaibah; born 1 May 1972Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (sometimes also spelled Shaikh; also known by at least 50 pseudonyms; born March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965) is a Pakistani Islamist militant held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-re ...

. He now works as a reporter for the investigative news website

Exaro ''Exaro'' or ''Exaro News'' was a British website based in London between 2011 and 2016. It purportedly undertook political investigative journalism, but is now primarily known (together with its editor Mark Watts) for its direct involvement in ...

. He recently uncovered a cache of long-hidden documents which revealed the extent of the child sexual abuse that took place at Knowl View school - the school founded by the disgraced paedophile MP

Cyril Smith Sir Cyril Richard Smith (28 June 1928 – 3 September 2010) was a prominent British politician who after his death was revealed to have been a prolific serial sex offender against children. A member of the Liberal Party, he was Member of ...

. He was launch editor for the online magazine, China Outlook, and he writes ''the Circling the Lions Den blog'' about Afghanistan.

Books

In October 1999 Nick Fielding's book ''Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair'' (together with Mark Hollingsworth) was published by Andre Deutsch Ltd. In May 2003 Fielding's book ''Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen'' (together with

) was published by

Arcade Publishing Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. It publishes American and world fiction and nonfiction. The company was started and run by Richard Seaver and his wife Jeannette.Weber, Bruce (Ja ...

References

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