David Docherty is a British writer, journalist, academic, television executive and producer and former CEO of the National Centre for Universities and Business. He writes both fiction and non-fiction, the former falling into the thrillers genre and the latter being academic books relating to the media. He has also produced two plays for children.

Career

Educated at the

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and the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

, Docherty has had a lengthy career in the British media. During his career in television his credits have included serving as

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Deputy Director of Television and Director of New Media with the corporation, as well as being a member of the BBC's Board of Management and a director of the

Royal Television Society The Royal Television Society (RTS) is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present, and future. It is the oldest television society in the world. It currently has fourteen r ...

. In addition he has also been managing director of Broadband at

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, chief executive of the interactive television company YooPublic and chairman of the board of Governors at the

University of Luton The University of Bedfordshire is a public research university with campuses in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England. The University has roots from 1882, however, it gained university status in 1993 as the University of Luton. The Universi ...

. More recently, he was CEO of

CSC Media Group CSC Media Group, formerly known as Chart Show Channels (CSC), was a British cable television broadcasting company. It was a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television. The company dissolved on 27 November 2019. Background CSC Media Group was named ...

and Chairman of Internet-TV company, IPVision. In June 2009 Docherty took over as chief executive of the CIHE,. He led the organisation's rebranding as The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) in 2013. David is the current CEO of the NCUB which develops, promotes and supports world-class collaboration between universities and business across the UK. He is also currently Chairman of the

Digital TV Group The DTG (Digital TV Group) is the association for British digital television broadcasters and annually publish and maintain the technical specifications for digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, which is known as the D-Boo ...

. As an author he has written several works of fiction and non-fiction. His non-fiction books are usually concerned with the media and include ''Running the Show: 21 years of London Weekend Television'', published in 1990 and Violence in Television Fiction (published in 1991). His novels include The Spirit Death (2000) and The Killing Jar (2002). The Spirit Death was optioned for

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. As a journalist he has written articles for

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

, The Listener and

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

Bibliography

Fiction

* The Spirit Death (2000) * The Killing Jar (2002) * The Fifth Season (2003)

Non-fiction

* The Last Picture Show? Britain's Changing Film Audience (1987) * Keeping Faith? Channel 4 and Its Audience (1988) * Running The Show: 21 Years of London Weekend Television (1990) * Violence in Television Fiction * Growing Value: Business-University Collaboration for the 21st Century (2014)

External links

NCUB

David's profile on NCUB

Agent's biography

David Docherty profile at Fantastic Fiction

Digital TV Group

Notes

;General * ;Specific Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British thriller writers British male journalists British television executives Alumni of the University of Strathclyde Alumni of the London School of Economics British male novelists Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-tv-bio-stub