David Chater was born on 1953 and is a British broadcast journalist.
17 Facts About David Chater
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David Chater joined ITN in 1976, Sky News in 1993 and Al Jazeera English in 2006.
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David Chater was born on 5 March 1953 in the large village of Meopham in Kent in South East England.
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David Chater was educated at Maidstone Grammar School in the county town of Maidstone in Kent, from November 1965 to February 1972, and in later life, he became President of the Old Maidstonian Society.
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David Chater read Experimental Psychology at St John's College from 1972 to 1975, graduating with a BA from the University of Oxford.
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David Chater began his career working for the local newspaper, the Kent Messenger newspaper, but he stayed with the paper for only a very short time, before joining the broadcaster ITN.
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In 1991, David Chater was seriously injured whilst reporting on the front-line in Vukovar during the Yugoslavian conflict, when he was shot in the back by a sniper's bullet.
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David Chater joined Sky News in 1993, and opened its Moscow bureau, becoming its first Moscow Correspondent.
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David Chater moved to Jerusalem in 1996, becoming Sky News' Middle East correspondent.
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David Chater was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his coverage of the continuing conflict in that region.
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David Chater reported from the conflict in Kosovo and the 1999 war against Slobodan Milosevic.
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David Chater was awarded the Gold Medal for International Reporter of the Year at the New York Television Festival for his coverage of the Second Chechen War during the Siege of Grozny, in which he was caught in the middle of a Grad rocket attack while reporting to camera.
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David Chater returned to the UK and was assigned to Sky News' Investigative Journalism Unit, and later became Sky News' Africa Correspondent.
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In 2006, David Chater resigned from Sky News to join Al Jazeera English.
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The then Head of Sky News, Nick Pollard, said David Chater was leaving to pursue "other interests" and praised his "outstanding career" with the channel.
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In 2008, David Chater left Al Jazeera to become Head of News at the Kanal Pik television channel in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
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David Chater helped the new company bed-in before returning to Al Jazeera English.