User:Donphilpott

Don Philpott is an award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster. He is currently Editor of the International Homeland Security Digest and is a former Editor of Homeland Defense Journal, He has been writing, reporting, and broadcasting about security, civil unrest, and terrorism for almost forty years. For twenty years he was a senior correspondent with Press Association-Reuters, the wire service, traveling the world reporting on major events and trouble spots including Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Israel, South Africa, and the Far East. He is the author of more than ninety books on a wide range of subjects including wine, food, travel, health, the media and security. He is a regular contributor to radio and television programs and has had more than 5,000 articles published in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and UK. His latest books include The Wounded Warrior Handbook, Workplace Violence Prevention Handbook and the Education Facilities Security Handbook, all published by Rowman and Littlefield. He is currently working on The Wine and Food Encyclopedia. He has produced special reports on Protecting the Athens Olympics, The Threat from Dirty Bombs, Anti-Terrorism Measures in the UK, The National Guard, Nanotechnology and the U.S. Military, and The Global Impact of the London Bombings, published in August 2009, which resulted in a number of radio interviews in the United States and the UK. Born in Hull in England, he moved to the United States in 1994. When not writing, he is a volunteer Ranger at Wekiwa Springs State Park in Central Florida where he helps run the nature center and interpretive program. He is a keen wildlife photographer.