Posted on October 20, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Liz was formerly a journalist on the Tehran Journal, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, the Evening Standard and the Guardian. She moved to television at the start of Channel 4 where she became director of Programmes. She joined the BBC as Managing Director BBC Network Radio in 1993. She is Chair of the Scott Trust and of the National youth Orchestra and Deputy Chair of the British Museum. She was formerly Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Arts Council, a non-executive director of the Guardian Media Group and a non-executive member of the Department for Culture Media and Sport. She is a Patron of St Giles Trust, the National Churches Trust and the Pier Art Gallery, Stromness. She was made DBE in 2006 for services to heritage and broadcasting. She is an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, St Hugh’s College Oxford and Girton College Cambridge. She took up the role of Chair at Bristol Old Vic in May 2013.
Posted on October 20, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Francis is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. He has written for The Guardian, the Evening Standard and Private Eye and is the author of several books. His book, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991 – 2001 won the Orwell Prize in 2003. His biography of Karl Marx won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999. Francis is a regular panellist on The News Quiz and Have I Got News For You.
Posted on September 27, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster, the official historian of the BBC and took over the Orwell Prize as Director in 2007. She has written on the history and role of the media in politics, wars, revolutions, religion and childhood, including Power Without Responsibility: the Press and Broadcasting in Britain (with James Curran) and Carnage and the Media: The Making and Breaking of News about Violence, as well as (with John Lloyd)What Can Be Done? Making the Media and Politics Better. She is on the board of the Political Quarterly and Full Fact.
Posted on September 27, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Victoria Glendinning is a freelance writer, well-known for her successful biographies and novels. She also writes reviews and articles, and does broadcasts and talks on all kinds of subjects.
Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter; Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer; Vita: the Life of V.Sackville-West (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography); Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize); Anthony Trollope (another Whitbread Prize for Biography). Her novels include The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight.
Victoria has been President of English PEN and a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and although she has never had an academic post she has four honorary doctorates.
Posted on September 27, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. He is an award-winning novelist and a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and Granta magazine. In his acclaimed first book, The Missing, O’Hagan wrote about his own childhood and told the stories of parents whose children had disappeared. The book was shortlisted for the Esquire Award, the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award, and the McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year award. Part of the book was adapted for radio and television as Calling Bible John and won a BAFTA award.
Our Fathers, his first novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. Personality, about a 13-year-old girl with a beautiful singing voice growing up above a chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute and making ready to realise her family’s dream of fame, won the 2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). In 2003 Andrew O’Hagan was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. In 2004 he edited The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, a collection of various writers’ accounts of Kolkata.
Posted on September 27, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Blake Morrison is an award-winning writer, poet and journalist. He began his career working for the Times Literary Supplement, before serving as literary editor for The Observer and the Independent on Sunday. Blake writes across genres in the form of poetry, journalism, novel and memoir.
For his writing he has won the Eric Gregory Award, the Dylan Thomas Award, Somerset Maugham Award for Dark Glasses, E. M. Forster Award, Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone’s Non-Fiction and the JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography for his memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? The book was subsequently made into a feature film starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth. His most famous works include the narrative poem The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, an investigation into the Jamie Bulger case As if and most recently The Last Weekend. Blake is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, former chair of the Poetry Book Society, vice-chair of PEN and a member of the Orwell Trust. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Posted on September 27, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Lynne Truss began her writing life as a literary journalist, editing the books section of The Listener magazine between 1986 and 1990. Since then she has kept a high profile as a journalist, writing for The Times as a critic, columnist and sportswriter (shortlisted for Sportswriter of the Year 1997); for Woman’s Journal(“Columnist of the Year”, 1996); and more recently as a critic for the Daily Mailand The Sunday Times, where she is a regular book reviewer. She has published six books, including three novels, With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, Tennyson’s Gift and Going Loco. Her book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, was the publishing phenomenon of 2003.
She has also written many scripts for BBC Radio 4, including dramas, sitcoms and talks. She appears regularly on the network presenting features and taking part in discussions. Two series of her comedy series Acropolis Now have so far been broadcast (starring Stephen Moore, Robert Hardy, Imelda Staunton); also a six part series of monologues A Certain Age, and an innovative six-part series of dialogues Full Circle, starring Claire Skinner, Phyllis Logan, Michael Maloney, Phil Davis and Sheila Hancock.
Posted on August 11, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Caroline is Executive Director of the English National Ballet and Chair of Digital UK. She began at the BBC as a broadcast journalist and worked as a producer on Radio 4 and Panorama. She spent 11 years at Channel 4 before returning to the BBC, where she became Chief Operating Officer, before stepping down in 2012.
Posted on August 11, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Richard Tait is Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University. He was Editor-in-Chief of ITN from 1995 to 2002. Before that he was Editor of Channel Four News and Editor of Channel 4 Programmes from 1987 to 1995. He began his journalistic career in business magazines before joining the BBC in 1979 where he became editor of The Money Programme, Newsnight, and the 1987 General Election Results programme. He was a Governor of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and a BBC Trustee and Chairman of the Editorial Standards Committee from 2006 to 2010. He was awarded the RTS’s lifetime achievement award in 2014 for his work at the BBC and ITN. He is Treasurer of the International News Safety Institute and an independent trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee.
Posted on August 11, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
John Lloyd is a contributing editor to the Financial Times, a columnist for Reuters.com and for La Repubblica of Rome; he was co-founder of The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in 2006, where he is now a Senior Research Fellow. He has been editor of the New Statesman and of Time Out. John has won the British Press Awards Specialist Writer of the Year; the Granada What the Papers Say awards Journalist of the Year; the David Watt prize for journalism and the Biagio Agnes (Italy) International Reporter of the Year . He is the author of Loss without Limit: the British Miners’ Strike, Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia, What the Media are doing to our Politics and Reporting the EU, News, Media and the European Institutions.
Posted on August 11, 2016 by The Orwell Prize -
Frances Cairncross is an economist and journalist. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, chair of the Court of Heriot-Watt University and interim Director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. She was an economic columnist on The Guardian and subsequently a senior editor at The Economist. Dame Frances was Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council between 2001 and 2007. She is the author of a number of books, including The Death of Distance and Costing the Earth. From 2004 to 2014 Dame Frances was Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University
Posted on August 11, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
Stewart is a Professor of TV Journalism at City University. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief and CEO of ITN News. He was made a CBE in 2000 for his services to broadcast journalism.
Posted on August 11, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
Yasmin is a journalist, author, and a columnist for the Independent and the Evening Standard. She has over 30 years’ experience in journalism and has written for a number of newspapers, including The Guardian, The New York Times, and the Daily Mail. Yasmin won the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2002.
Posted on September 27, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Michael is a journalist and educator whose assignments have taken him around the globe. His writing has earned him several Pulitzer Awards. Michael is Professor of Journalism a USC.
Michael Parks at USC
Posted on September 27, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Paul is a former Editor of Tribune and former Deputy Editor of New Statesman. He was Director of Undergraduate Journalism at City University London for more than 10 years. He is the author of Orwell in Tribune: As I Please and other writings
Paul Anderson’s blog | Paul Anderson on Twitter
Posted on September 27, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Robin is a journalist and broadcaster who most notably presented Newshour on BBC World Service and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. He has won a number of awards, including the 1998 Sony Silver Award for Talk/News Broadcaster of the Year. In 2013 he received the Charles Wheeler award for outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism.
Robin Lustig’s blog | Robin Lustig on Twitter
Posted on September 27, 2013 by The Orwell Prize -
Chris Mullin is an author, a journalist and a politician. He was MP for Sunderland South for 23 years; a minister in three departments and chairman of the Home Affairs select committee. As a writer Chris’ books include three highly acclaimed volumes of diaries, the latest of which is A walk on part. He has also written three novels. As a journalist he has contributed to all major outlets and many more. Chris is chairman for the Heritage Lottery Fund North East and judged the Man Booker Prize in 2011.
Chris Mullin’s website
Posted on September 27, 2013 by The Orwell Prize -
Nicholas is former Public Policy Editor of the Financial Times and author of The Five Giants; A Biography of the Welfare State He now works with The King’s Fund, an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England. Nicholas is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, a senior associate of the Nuffield Trust, and a visiting professor in public management at King’s College London.
Nicholas Timmins on Journalisted