13-JUL-1991 16:36
SCMP EDITORIAL
RESUME
DANNY GITTINGS
SUNDAY MORNING POST
852 811 1048
P. 02/08
*1990 to date
Chief political reporter on the Sunday Morning Post. Covered events such as Mrs. Thatcher's resignation and the negotiation of the airport accord. Write weekly column on local political developments.
*1989-90 Hong Kong based writer. Travelled widely in Asia writing for the Scotsman, Compass News, and South China Morning Post among others, one of the first western- journalists to be given open access to war-torn Fast Timor.
*Dec, 1988: Filed under fire from Lhasa the only eyewitness account of shooting of Tibetan monks, despite all phone lines being cut and police search of local hotels. Escorted wounded Dutch tourist to Hong Kong and chaired press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club.
*Nov, 87 Sept, 88: Writer/researcher on one of Britain's biggest-selling books, Chronicle of the Twentieth Century, a 1,360 page journalistic world history.
*August Express.
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Nov, 87 : Features researcher for the Daily
*March July 87; Trainee reporter on the London Daily News; Britain's first 24 hour newspaper.
*1986-87: Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism from University College Cardiff. Passed 100 words per minute shorthand exam.
*1983-86: Politics and Economics BA (Second) from St. Catherines College, Oxford University President of college students union.
*1983
Research assistant at the House of Commons.