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Broadcast journalist with 26 years experience, including frequent residence and travel in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, seeking challenging assignment. |
 Contact Fergus Nicoll
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Communications, Media, Knowledge Management, Editor
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Professional Experience: |
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I have worked as a broadcast journalist since 1988, working in radio and television as a producer, reporter and presenter. I am currently freelancing as a senior programme editor at Al Jazeera English. This position involves considerable responsibility, as well as hands-on expertise. Leading a production team of 12 producers, six newsgathering specialists and a further dozen technical colleagues, I supervise the building of sequences of items in hour- or half-hour-long news programmes. The role requires decisive leadership on issues from judging the credibility of news sources in the Middle East to preventing libel on air.
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Education: |
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After writing two books and various academic articles, I sought to maximise my potential by undertaking a PhD in the Department of History at Reading. I decided to investigate in greater detail the reasons for British involvement in Sudan, not least as a counter-balance to my earlier work on the Sudanese historiography of the same period. My thesis was completed under the title ‘Gladstone, Gordon and Sudan (1883-5)'.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
During my broadcast career, I won three prestigious awards. The first came in July 1991, when I won the Sony Award for ‘Best Breakfast Programme’, as presenter and producer on the BBC World Service programme 'Network Africa'. In May 2009, the programme I co-presented, ‘The World Today’, won the Sony Gold Award for News and Current Affairs Programme. And in October 2012, I won the Association of International Broadcasters Award for ‘Best Live News Coverage (Radio)’ for my reporting on the independence of South Sudan the previous summer. I am also an elected Trustee of the Rift Valley Institute and a Board Member of the Sudan Studies Society of the UK.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Doctorate |
Languages:
English, French, Arabic |
Nationality:
United Kingdom
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