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David Pratt (Scottish journalist)
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “scottish author”. Today it says “scottish journalist”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
David Pratt is a Scottish journalist, documentary filmmaker, photographer, and author who has won Scottish Press awards as Scottish Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year, and Feature Writer of the Year. As well as being a war reporter his photography has featured in his 2020 documentary Pictures from Afghanistan and 2022 documentary Pictures from Iraq . He is the author of Intifada – The Long Day of Rage (2006).
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “scottish author”. Today it says “scottish journalist”. Read the current article and compare.
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scottish author
Now
scottish journalist
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