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Anthony David Smith,
in the 1960s. He became responsible for running the nightly news programme '' Twenty-Four Hours''.
In the early 1970s, he became a research fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He worked for the
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Anthony David Smith, CBE
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(14 March 1938 – 28 November 2021) was a British broadcaster, author and academic, who was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1988 to 2005.
Life and career
Smith was born on 14 March 1938 and attendedHarrow County School for Boys
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(now Harrow High School
Harrow High School is a co-educational academy in the London Borough of Harrow and a specialist Sports College. It was previously called Gayton High School and Harrow County School for Boys. The school has a sixth form for post-16 studies part ...
), from 1949 to 1956. He read English at Brasenose College, Oxford.
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on The Future of Broadcasting, and became engaged in the national debate which led to the foundation of the UK's Channel 4
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. He was subsequently appointed a board director of Channel 4 (1981–1985). He carried out research for the McGregor Commission on the Press, which presented its report in 1976.
Between 1979 and 1988, he was director of the British Film Institute
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and was involved in the conception and establishment of the Museum of the Moving Image
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on London's South Bank.
In 1988 he was appointed President of Magdalen College
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, Oxford University, and he retired from this position in 2005.
He was made CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
in 1987, and was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Arts) by Oxford Brookes University in 1997.
He was for four years a Member of the Arts Council of Great Britain and had a long association with the Writers & Scholars Educational Trust, (which produces '' Index on Censorship''), acting for several years as its chairman. He was for 10 years a member of the Cambodia Trust for the rehabilitation of landmine victims, and also was for 10 years chairman of the Jan Hus Educational Foundation which was active in helping intellectuals and academics in Czechia and Slovakia in the years before and after the Velvet Revolution
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of 1989.
Smith was a patron of the London Film School, trustee of the Prince of Wales's School of Traditional Arts, and a board member of the British Institute of Florence
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, of the Choir of the Sixteen and of the Medical Research Foundation.
He was also chair of the Hill Foundation, which provides scholarships for Russian students to study at Oxford University, and was also chair of the Oxford-Russia Fund, which provides scholarships for students attending universities within Russia, provides English-language books to Russian universities and also sponsors public discussion of topics affecting higher education in Russia.
Smith died from renal failure at his home at Albany, in Piccadilly, London, on 28 November 2021, at the age of 83.
Writing
Smith wrote on broadcasting and the Press, and on the modern information industries in general. His books include: * (ed.) ''British Broadcasting'' (David & Charles, 1974), * (ed.) ''The British Press Since the War'' (David & Charles, 1974) * ''The Shadow in the Cave: a Study of the Relationship Between the Broadcaster, his Audience and the State'' (Quartet Books, 1976) * (ed.) ''Subsidies and the Press in Europe'' (PEP, 1977) * ''The Politics of Information: Problems of Policy in Modern Media'' (Macmillan, 1978) * ''The Newspaper: an International History'' (Thames and Hudson, 1979) * (ed.) ''Television and Political Life: Studies in Six European Countries'' (Macmillan, 1979) * ''Goodbye Gutenberg: the Newspaper Revolution of the 1980s'' (Oxford University Press, 1980) * ''The Geopolitics of Information: How Western Culture Dominates the World'' (Faber & Faber, 1980) * ''Licences and Liberty: the Future of Public Service Broadcasting'' (Acton Society, 1985) * (ed. with James Curran and Pauline Wingate) ''Impacts and Influences: Essays on Media Power in the Twentieth Century'' (Methuen, 1987) * ''Broadcasting and society in 1990s Britain'' (W.H. Smith, 1990) * ''The Age of Behemoths: the Globalization of Mass Media Firms'' (New York : Priority Press, 1991) * ''Books to Bytes: Knowledge and Information in the Postmodern Era'' (British Film Institute, 1993) * ''Disinterested Bystanders: Reconciling Media Freedom and Responsibility'' (John Stuart Mill Institute, 1996) * ''Software for the Self: Technology and Culture'' (Oxford University Press, 1996) * (ed. with Richard Paterson) ''Television : an International History'' (Oxford University Press, 1998)References
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