Stewart Purvis

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Stewart Purvis CBE is a British broadcaster and academic.

[edit] TV Journalism

An ITN trainee who rose through the ranks Purvis was the second editor of ITN's Channel 4 News from 1983 and is generally credited with creating the programme in its current ethos.

He was Editor-in-Chief and CEO of ITN and retired in 2003 after 31 years at the company.

[edit] Academic

Purvis is the Professor of Television Journalism at City University, London. In 2004-5 he was News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University.

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