Awards and Honours
- 1980, 1988 – British Press Awards Journalist of the Year - one of only two journalists to have won the honor twice
- 1982 – British Colour Magazine Writer of the Year
- 1983 – British Chef and Brewer Crime Writer's award - for his investigation into a murder case in Italy
- 1980 – Granada Television Reporter of the Year
- 1975 – Overseas Press Club of America Award for The First Casualty as the best book on foreign affairs.
- 2006 – City University, London, Artes Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor of Arts) for Services to Journalism and Authorship.
- 2007 – University of Sydney, Australia, Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor of Letters) for Services to Journalism and Authorship.
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