As a producer/director on the British TV shows "Tonight", "This Week" and "TV Eye", Blair covered domestic and foreign political and economic stories including the first programme about the 1976 Soweto uprising for British television, "There Is No Crisis!", and coverage of wars in the Middle East, Cambodia and Angola. As a war correspondent/feature writer he has contributed to "The Times", "The Sunday Times", "The Observer", "The Economist" and "The New York Times". He has also been a book reviewer for the "Los Angeles Times".