David Rose (born 21 July 1959) is a British author and investigative journalist.
He is a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a special investigations writer for The Mail on Sunday.
His interests include human rights, miscarriages of justice, the death penalty, racism, the war on terror, politics, energy policy and climate change.
He is the author of six non-fiction books and a novel, Taking Morgan, a thriller set in Washington, Oxford, Tel Aviv and Gaza, published by Quartet in 2014.
He was named News Reporter of the Year in the Society of Editors British Press Awards for 2015.
However, his journalism on climate has been criticised by climate scientists and environmentalists for an over-reliance on unsound and unscientific sources and has been censured by Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).
Rose was also accused of and has admitted to the dissemination of incorrect information , from unreliable sources in the run up to the Iraq war.