David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos is special correspondent at the Daily Mail, the most popular newspaper in the UK and one of the top four English-language news platforms in the world with over 300 million monthly visits. Its American website, DailMail.com is one of the biggest news sites in the US & attracted 130 million visitors in May. He is one of the Mail’s leading feature writers and foreign correspondents. His long-form features have often run as the Saturday Essay, arguably the most read slot in UK journalism; his articles regularly garner millions of readers. He is also the foreign correspondent for the online magazine UnHerd.

He has written for almost every major publication in the US and UK, including The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Guardian, The Times, Foreign Policy, Politico, The New Republic, CNN, Reuters, the National Interest, the Telegraph, the Independent, the Spectator, Prospect, New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Newsweek, Tablet, Mashable, Literary Review, Haaretz and many others.

Patrikarakos has 101,000 followers on X (these include some of the highest-profile authors, journalists, politicians and thought leaders in the US and Europe). He has an extensive media
presence, regularly appearing on TV and radio including PBS, CNN, BBC Newsnight, Start the Week, The World Tonight, BBC 5Live, BBC Have Your Say, BBC News 24, BBC World News, ABC, Al Jazeera, Ukraine’s Hromadske TV, various US radio stations and many other programmes on TV and radio, as well many other international broadcasters. He has done all manner of formats, including straight interviews, panel discussions and debates.

As a documentary producer, he has produced a variety of films for BBC2, BBC3 and Channel 4, (including Dispatches and This World documentaries), ABC, Al Jazeera and others on issues from Iran’s nuclear program, to Congo, to the Greek financial crisis, to drugs in Thailand, and the war in Ukraine. His film work has taken him to several continents.