Breve trayectoria profesional

1958-62: escritor freelance, reportero deportivo y redactor del Daily & Sunday Telegraph, Sydney.
1962: corresponsal freelance, Italia.
1962-63: encargado de la sección de Oriente Próximo, Reuters, Londres.
1963-86: reportero, redactor, articulista y corresponsal-jefe para el extranjero del Daily Mirror.
1986-88: jefe de redacción y cofundador de News on Sunday, Londres.
1969-71: reportero de "World in Action", Granada Television.
1974-81: reportero / productor de Associated Television.
1981: documentalista, Central/Carlton Television.

Acreditado corresponsal de Guerra en Vietnam, Camboya, Egipto, India, Bangladesh, Biafra y Oriente Próximo.

Colaboraciones

BBC Television Australia, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, London Broadcasting, ABC Television, ABC Radio Australia  

Publicaciones

Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation (New York), The Age (Melbourne), The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin (Sydney), además de numerosas publicaciones periódicas y diarios franceses, italianos, escandinavos, canadienses y japoneses.  

Bibliografía

Freedom Next Time, Bantam Press, Random House, 2006
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs, Jonathan Cape, 2004
The New Rulers of the World, Verso, 2002
Heroes, Vintage, 2001
Hidden Agendas, Vintage, 1998
A secret country, Vintage, 1994
Distant voices, Vintage, 1994

Filmografía

Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny (1970); Conversations With a Working Man (1971); Vietnam: Still America's War; Palestine is Still the Issue; Guilty Until Proven Innocent; Thalidomide: The Children We Forgot; The Most Powerful Politician in America; One British Family (1974); An Unfashionable Tragedy; Nobody's Children; Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy; Smashing Kids; To Know Us Is To Love Us; A Nod & A Wink (1975); Zap - The Weapon is Food; Pyramid Lake is Dying; Street of Joy (1976); Pilger in Australia; A Faraway Country; Dismantling A Dream; An Unjustifiable Risk(1977); Do You Remember Vietnam? (1978); Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979); The Mexicans (1980); Cambodia Year One, Heroes (1981); Frontline: In Search of Truth in Wartime (1982); The Truth Game; Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive (1983); Burp! Pepsi v Coke in The Ice Cold War (1984); The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back (1985); Japan Behind the Mask (1987); The Last Dream: Heroes Unsung; Secrets; Other People's Wars (1988); Cambodia Year Ten (1989); Cambodia The Betrayal (1990); War by Other Means; Frontline - In Search Of Truth In Wartime (1992); Cambodia: Return to Year Zero (1993); Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994, actualizado en 1999); Flying the Flag, Arming the World (1994); Vietnam: The Last Battle (1995); Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996, actualizado en 1998); Breaking the Mirror - The Murdoch Effect (1997); South Africa: Apartheid did not Die (1998); Welcome to Australia (1999); Paying The Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000); The New Rulers Of The World (2001); Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002); Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003); Stealing a Nation (2004); The War on Democracy (2007).