[1] Born on 15 March 1945 in Newcastle, England, David Pallister studied history at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1967.
His international coverage in the 1980s and '90s focused on Africa, particularly the political elections in Nigeria, as well as Ethiopia; he also wrote on the civil wars in Sri Lanka and Lebanon.
[3][4] Pallister was a member of the Guardian teams for the British Press Awards for the Neil Hamilton Affair (1997) and the Aitken case (1998).
He won a Project Censored Award[5] from Sonoma State University (2002, with Greg Palast) on the failure of the FBI to investigate the Bin Laden family.
In 2012, Pallister joined the investigative news website Exaro, writing about unrest at Lonmin's platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa.