Donald Macintyre (journalist)
Introduction '''Donald Macintyre''' is a British freelance journalist and author, formerly a political editor  and foreign correspondent on ''The Independent.''
Education Macintyre was educated at Bradfield College and Christ Church, Oxford, and obtained a post-graduate diploma from the Cardiff School of Journalism, under Tom Hopkinson.
Journalism career After working at the Birmingham ''Sunday Mercury'', Macintyre moved to the ''Daily Express'' as an industrial reporter, subsequently becoming Labour Editor at ''The Sunday Times'' and ''The Times''.As Labour Editor at ''The Times'', he did not go to Wapping when Rupert Murdoch 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 ''The Sunday Telegraph'' as Political Editor in 1987, leaving it for the short-lived ''Sunday Correspondent'' in 1990 before joining first ''The Independent on Sunday'' and then ''The Independent'' 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,
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