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David Leigh (born 1946) is a British journalist and author who was the investigations executive editor of ''The Guardian''. He retired in April 2013,〔William Turvill ("Investigative journalist David Leigh retires after 30 years with The Guardian" ), ''Press Gazette'', 15 April 2013〕 although Leigh anticipates continuing his association with the newspaper.〔Roy Greenslade ("David Leigh, doyen of investigative journalists, steps down" ), guardian.co.uk (Greenslade blog), 17 April 2013〕 ==Career== Educated at Nottingham High School and King's College, Cambridge, he was awarded a Cambridge research degree in 1968. He is a investigative journalist who received the first of his British Press Awards in 1979 for an exposure of jury-vetting. He was a journalist for the ''Scotsman'', ''The Times'', and ''The Guardian'', and a Laurence Stern fellow at the ''Washington Post'' in 1980. From 1980 to 1989, he was chief investigative reporter at ''The Observer''. His book ''The Wilson Plot'' (1988) increased public interest in alleged attempts by the British security services and others to destabilise Harold Wilson's government in the 1970s. His 1995 TV documentary for ''World in Action'', "Jonathan of Arabia", led after a libel trial to the jailing for perjury of former Conservative defence minister Jonathan Aitken. With his colleague Rob Evans, Leigh published a series of corruption exposures in ''The Guardian'' about international arms giant BAE Systems. After a criminal inquiry by the US Department of Justice and other international prosecutors, the company was eventually required to pay penalties totalling $529 million. In 2006, Leigh became the Anthony Sampson Professor of Reporting in the Journalism department at City University London. His wife's sister married Alan Rusbridger, editor of ''The Guardian'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Leigh (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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