About Greg Watts
Greg Watts has established an excellent reputation as a journalist, author, teacher and public relations adviser.
He has written for The Times, The Guardian, Evening Standard, and many other publications, and has reported from Iraq, Russia, Italy, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
His TV and radio appearances include CNN, Sky, ITN, BBC, and Al-Jazeera. He has also appeared in the Channel 4 documentary The Week they Elected the Pope and also worked on a series of short films exploring faith and spirituality.
Following the death of Pope John Paul II In 2005 he helped to manage the press office of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales as it dealt with a record number of requests from journalists.
Greg is a member of:
- The Society of Authors
- The National Association of Writers in Education
- The National Association for Literature Development
I have one of the most fascinating jobs in the world, he says.
"During my career as a journalist and author, I've met some extraordinary and often inspiring people and also found myself in some unexpected situations. I've spent the night on patrol with a special police squad cruising London's West End, corresponded with one of Britain's most dangerous prisoners, presented a live programme on a pirate radio station, and been taken behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace. On my travels, I've stood shivering on a frozen lake in Russia, watching Orthodox monks perform an ancient ritual, made a scary car journey up into the mountains of Lebanon, drank tea with gunmen in a former torture chamber in Baghdad and investigated alleged supernatural events in a village in Bosnia."