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.

On 14 November 2007 it was announced by the media regulator Ofcom that he was due to take up the position of Content and Standards Partner at the organisation on 3 December.

[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.