David Chater
| David Chater | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 March 1953 Meopham, Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Maidstone Grammar School, Kent St John's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, correspondent, political presenter |
| Employer | ITN, Sky News, Al Jazeera English |
| Known for |
ITN: Yugoslavia Correspondent & Middle East Correspondent Sky News: Moscow Correspondent, Middle East Correspondent & Africa Correspondent Al Jazeera English: Middle East Correspondent Award-winning journalist |
David Chater (born 1953) is an award-winning British broadcast journalist.
Chater is a correspondent with more than 35 years' experience in international television news, having worked for Independent Television News, Sky News and Al Jazeera English. He joined ITN in 1976, Sky News in 1993 and Al Jazeera English in 2006. In 2008 he also took time out to serve as Head of News at Georgian television channel Kanal Pik, run under licence by K1.
Chater was born on 5 March 1953 in the large village of Meopham in Kent in South East England. He 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.
Immediately after leaving school, he took a Short-Service Limited Commission [SSLC] in the British Army and served briefly as an officer, attached to a regiment of Gurkha Rifles in Hong Kong, Brunei and Sarawak.
He read Experimental Psychology at St John's College from 1972 to 1975, graduating with an MA from the University of Oxford.
Like most journalists, Chater began his career working for the local newspaper. In his case, this was the Kent Messenger newspaper, but he stayed with the paper for only a very short time, before joining the broadcaster ITN.
Chater joined ITN in 1976, as a graduate trainee. Later, he became a scriptwriter and then a Chief Sub-Editor. As a reporter, he worked around the world, covering stories such as the Enniskillen bombing, Lockerbie, the Piper Alpha disaster, the Falklands crisis and Falklands War in 1982 and the Gulf War in 1991.
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