Johann Hari

Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who began his career as a staff reporter for the New Statesman in 2001 and now writes for the Independent, The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, The Melbourne Age, South Africa's Star, The Irish Times, and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines. He is a Senior Contributing Editor to Attitude, Britain's best-selling gay magazine.

In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International for his reporting on the war in Congo. He has been nominated for many other awards, including Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards. He has reported from Iraq, the Gaza Strip, the Congo, Bangladesh, India, the United States, Venezuela, Rwanda, Peru, Mexico, the Central African Republic, Syria and the United States.

He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, NBC's Today program, the BBC's Question Time and Newsnight, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and others. He appears regularly as an arts critic on Newsnight Review.

In 2010 Johann was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. The award, named after the renowned war correspondent, sought entries from journalists who had "penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth, validated by powerful facts, that exposes establishment propaganda". He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain

His website is johannhari.com