- An award-winning journalist. He worked for example in newspapers like The Daily Mirror, Guardian and New Statesman.
- Pilger's career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and continued with over 50 documentaries thereafter.
- Pilger won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award in 1967 and 1979.
- Shortly after Pilger won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009, the Australian conservative commentator Gerard Henderson accused Pilger of "engaging in hyperbole against western democracies".
- During his work with BBC's Midweek television series during 1972-73, Pilger completed five documentary reports, but only two were broadcast.
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