David Blundy

David Michael Blundy (21 March 1945 – 17 November 1989), was a British journalist and war correspondent killed by a sniper at the age of 44 in El Salvador.

[2] Blundy was born in Slinfold, West Sussex, England in the United Kingdom.

He grew up in south London near the intersection of Elephant and Castle in a house that was also the location of his father's antique shop.

Michael Bateman, who wrote The Sunday Times Atticus column, offered him the position of assistant.

Blundy was in El Salvador covering a military offensive when he was shot by a sniper while walking down the street with other reporters.

The group of reporters was walking in the working-class district of Mejicanos, that had recently been retaken by the army.

The award is used to encourage freelance journalists whose work is vital to foreign coverage in British Newspapers.