Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946) is an English writer and journalist.
He has been Middle East correspondent intermittently since 1976 for various media; since 1989 he has been correspondent for The Independent, based in Beirut.
Fisk has many British and international journalism awards, including the Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times.
He is an author and has reported on wars and armed conflicts.
An Arabic speaker, he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did three times between 1993 and 1997.