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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 constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university. The college was founde ...

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 degree, Master's degrees in management and finance, Master of B ...

Television journalism

Monck went on to be a TV journalist with

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(1988–92),

ITV News ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV (TV network), ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. ITN, Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the netwo ...

(1992–1996),

five news ''5 News'' is the flagship news programme of British broadcaster 5. It is produced by ITN from its main newsroom on London's Gray's Inn Road, and has been broadcast since Channel 5's launch in March 1997. History ''5 News'' was one of the ne ...

(1996–2004) and

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(2005). His work on the

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and in

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received awards from Britain's

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, and on aid to

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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

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, 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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