Flat Earth News (book)

Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is a 2008 non-fiction book by Nick Davies in which he investigating malpractice on Fleet Street.

[6][4]: 95  Based on the data, the research showed that "everyday practices of news judgement, fact-checking, balance, criticising and interrogating sources et cetera, that are, in theory, central to routine, day-to-day journalism" were the exception, not the rule.

[8] Peter Oborne in The Spectator said that Nick Davies has amassed an overwhelming weight of evidence that the British media lies, distorts facts and routinely breaks the law.

The Press Gazette series included references to details such as the copy of a fax that a Sunday Telegraph reporter had given Davies regarding the weapons expert, David Kelly.

[15][3]: 13 In 2014, Davies published Hack attack: the inside story of how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch,[3] which has been called the sister book to Flat Earth News.