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Adrian Monck is the Managing Director, Head of Public And Social Engagement at the

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and a former British journalism professor and writer on the media and current affairs.

Education

Adrian Monck graduated from

Exeter College, Oxford Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth-oldest college of the un ...

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 London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is " ...

Television journalism

Monck went on to be a TV journalist with

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...

(1988–92),

ITV News ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since conti ...

(1992–1996),

five news ''5 News at 5'', also known as ''Channel 5 News'', is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5, produced by ITN from its main newsroom on Gray's Inn Road, London. History ''5 News'' was one of the new station's flagship programme ...

(1996–2004) and

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(2005). His work on the

Dunblane massacre The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 pupils and one teacher, and injured 15 others, before killing himself. It remains the deadliest ...

and in

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received awards from Britain's

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, and on aid to

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the 1995 New York Festivals. 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 Kirsty Jackson Young (born 23 November 1968) is a Scottish television and radio presenter. From 2006 to 2018 she was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs''. She presented ''Crimewatch'' on BBC One from 2008 to 2015. Early ...

, won awards for its new informal style of news presentation and reporting which were quickly copied by rivals.

Academia

Before becoming managing director and Head of Communications at the

Adrian Monck headed City University's Department of Journalism from 2005 – 2009. He is an advocate of extending UK TV regulation of journalism to newspapers and online media but is critical of public funding for journalism. In 2006 he presented a lecture entitled ''Why the Public Doesn't Deserve the News''. 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'' and Richard Lindley's ''And Finally...The History of ITN''.

References

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