Peter Beaumont (born 28 November 1961 in Skegness) [1] is a British journalist who is the foreign affairs editor of The Observer [2] as well as writing for its sister paper, The Guardian . He has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine and Kosovo. [3]
Beaumont is the author of The Secret Life of War – Journeys Through Modern Conflict (2009), a memoir of his life as a foreign correspondent working in war zones. [2] [3]
He was played by Matthew Goode in the film Official Secrets (2019).