14 Facts About Phillip Knightley

Phillip George Knightley was an Australian journalist, critic, and non-fiction author.

Phillip Knightley became a visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln, England, and was a media commentator on the intelligence services and propaganda.

Phillip Knightley next joined the Oceania Daily News, for which he wrote a social column titled Round the Town With Suzanne.

Phillip Knightley left for London in November 1954 as foreign correspondent for the Daily Mirror, and then went to India as managing editor of the Bombay literary magazine, Imprint.

Phillip Knightley learned much later that Imprint was funded by the CIA.

Over a three-year period from 1968 to 1971, Phillip Knightley prepared an investigative report about the development of thalidomide in Germany and its manufacture under licence by The Distillers Company in the UK without adequate testing.

Phillip Knightley published an investigation into the Vestey family companies, which were structured to avoid tax.

Phillip Knightley was at The Sunday Times during the Hitler Diaries scandal.

Phillip Knightley lectured on journalism, law, and war at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra, the Australian Senate, City University, London, University of Manchester, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, Stanford University, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and to the University of Dusseldorf.

In 1997, Phillip Knightley was a judge for Canada's Lionel Gelber Prize, which honours the world's best book on international relations.

Phillip Knightley was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2005, for "services to journalism and as an author".

Phillip Knightley was married with two daughters, Aliya and Marisa, a son, Kim, and two granddaughters.

Phillip Knightley lived between London, Sydney and Goa in India.

Phillip Knightley died on 7 December 2016 at the age of 87.