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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 graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1988 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 TV journalist with CBS News (1988-92) [1], ITV News (1992-1996), five news (1996-2004) and Sky News (2005). 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 1995 New York Festivals. [2]

He launched and was Deputy and Managing Editor of ITN's 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. [3]

[edit] Academia

Adrian Monck heads City University's Department of Journalism. He has attacked trust in the media.

He is an advocate of extending UK TV regulation of journalism to newspapers and online media[1] but is critical of public funding for journalism. In 2006 he presented a lecture entitled Why the Public Doesn't Deserve the News. [2]

He is quoted in Bad News From Israel, by Greg Philo (of the Glasgow Media Group), Howard Tumber and Frank Webster's Journalists Under Fire: Information War and Journalistic Practices [3] and Richard Lindley's And Finally...The History of ITN.[4]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Whitney, Craig. "Moral cowardice? One name springs to mind", 1992-01-11. Retrieved on [[2008-05-16]]. 
  2. ^ "ITN TRIUMPHS AT TOP FESTIVAL", Press Association, 1995-01-20 Accessed via Lexis-Nexis.. 
  3. ^ Last, Colleen. "Five Is Ten", MSN, 2007-03-30. Retrieved on [[2008-05-15]]. 
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NAME Monck, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION UK academic, journalist and commentator
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH UK
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH