Robert King

Robert King (born May 25, 1969) is an American independent photo and video journalist. He has covered conflict areas and war zones since 1991. King was the subject of the 2008 documentary Blood Trail, re-released in 2009 as Shooting Robert King. His first newspaper cover photo was for The Guardian in 1993. He was the only photojournalist on the ground during the fall of Grozny. His photographs were used for covers of Newsweek, Life, and Time. His work at Vice is most closely associated with his coverage of software pioneer and fugitive John McAfee, which has been criticized as being too friendly and inadvertently aiding in McAfee's arrest in Guatemala, an allegation King denies. In 2015, BuzzFeed News reporting placed the blame for McAfee's capture on Vice editor-in-chief, Jonathan Smith, and found that King had not been responsible.

In 2014, King moved to Berlin, Germany and became the creative director of video for Bild.de

As of June 2018, he operates a farm in Tennessee and was serving as McAfee's official documentarian prior to McAfee's death. His work is extensively featured in the 2022 documentary Running With the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee.