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After leaving my role as a BBC news editor in 2013 following a career of just under 30 years, I undertook several happily contrasting projects: writing, parliamentary journalism training outside the UK and some parliamentary reporting work at Westminster.The writing was focused primarily on World War I history, specifically the role of the US in the war. I co-edited and authored the story of a young American pilot who left behind the largest archive of any US serviceman in the conflict in ‘An American on the Western Front: The First World War Letters of Arthur Clifford Kimber 1917-18’, published in the UK in 2016 and US in 2017. This was followed by ‘Pershing's Lieutenants: American Military Leadership in World War I (Osprey, 2020) for which I was a contributing author. And in between, I produced a body of articles, media interviews and talks aimed at the public understanding of the American role, both in Britain and the US.Prior to that, in 2014 and 2016, I helped devise and deliver two ‘Reporting Parliaments’ courses in the Asia-Pacific, in Fiji & the Solomon Islands. These were workshops, in Suva and Honiara, for political journalists from the region, jointly sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme and the UK High Commissions in Fiji and the Solomon Islands.My BBC career spanned the years 1985-2013, during which I worked on a variety of news and current affairs outlets and – latterly and primarily – as a political news editor.In my early years I worked in Scotland, beginning in 1987 reporting on what would be Margaret Thatcher’s third General Election victory. Then in London on programmes like The World at One, PM & The World This Weekend, covering the 1992 General Election, the assassination in India in 1991 of Rajiv Gandhi, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reshaping of eastern Europe including covering Poland’s first post-Cold War presidential elections in 1990, the First Gulf War and the Balkans Wars.In 1993, I moved to the BBC’s Westminster offices where I worked in a number of different capacities coordinating the BBC’s political news output, latterly as Deputy News Editor and Managing Editor. The newsgathering effort I oversaw there – in the multimedia newsroom – produced political content for all the main BBC programming and news platforms through the key events and developments in the premierships of John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron’s coalition government.

Listed skills include Broadcast Journalism, Politics, Journalism, Broadcast, and 19 others.

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  Queen'S University Of Belfast

  Economics & Politics