Adrian Monck
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Adrian Monck is a British journalism professor and writer on the media and current affairs.
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[edit] Education
Adrian Monck is originally from Cobholm in Great Yarmouth.
Between 1985 and 1988 he attended Exeter College, Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Modern History. At Oxford he was JCR President and edited Cherwell. In 2000 he was awarded an MBA from London Business School.
[edit] TV Journalism
Monck went on to be a broadcast journalist with CBS News (1988-92), ITV News (1992-1996), five news (1996-2004) and Sky News (2005). He has reported from Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Russia, the United States, India, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His work on the Dunblane massacre and in Bosnia received awards from Britain's Royal Television Society, and on aid to Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the New York International Festival.[1]
On 14 February 1989 he broke the news to Salman Rushdie of the fatwa imposed on him by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.
He worked with Adam Holloway on a series of ground-breaking undercover TV news reports for News At Ten that helped pioneer the genre.
He launched and was Deputy and Managing Editor of ITN's ground-breaking service for Britain's fifth terrestrial network, Channel 5. The service, fronted by Kirsty Young, won awards for its new informal style of news presentation and reporting which were quickly copied by rivals.
The newscaster delivered the news standing up, from various locations around a newsroom studio, and reporters introduced de-constructed packages. The format was influenced by Toronto's City TV, which had been an original bidder for the Channel 5 franchise.
[edit] Academia
Adrian Monck heads City University's world-renowned Department of Journalism and Publishing. He is an advocate of extending UK TV regulation of journalism to newspapers and online media[2] but is critical of public funding for journalism. In 2006 he presented a lecture entitled Why the Public Doesn't Deserve the News. [3]
He is quoted in Greg Philo's Bad News From Israel,[4] Howard Tumber and Frank Webster's Journalists Under Fire: Information War and Journalistic Practices[5] and Richard Lindley's And Finally...The History of ITN.[6]
[edit] Crunch Time
Co-author with Mike Hanley of the forthcoming book - Crunch Time: How Everyday Life is Killing The Future (Cambridge: Icon Books, 2007). Also co-author with Mike Hanley of Crunch Time (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2004).
[edit] Commentary
He has made numerous media appearances as a commentator in the UK and internationally. He has been an editorial consultant to leading UK and international broadcasters. He has written for the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Scotsman, the London Evening Standard, Press Gazette and the Times Higher Educational Supplement. Interests include the role of journalism in democracies, broadcast news, communicating international news, and British television.
[edit] Other Interests
In 2005-6 he was president of the Media Society[7]. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Royal Television Society, and has judged awards for both.
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| NAME | Monck, Adrian |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | UK academic, journalist and commentator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | UK |
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