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Tim Luckhurst
Born
Timothy Colin Harvey Luckhurst

(1963-01-08) 8 January 1963 (age 63)
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Alma materRobinson College, Cambridge
OccupationsJournalist and academic
Employer(s)Durham University, BBC
SpouseDorothy (née Williamson)
Children4

Timothy Colin Harvey Luckhurst (born 8 January 1963)[citation needed] is a British journalist and academic, currently principal of South College of Durham University and an associate pro-vice-chancellor. Between 2007 and 2019 he was professor of Journalism at the University of Kent,[1] and the founding head of the university's Centre for Journalism.[2]

Luckhurst began his career as a journalist on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme before being part of the team that designed and launched BBC Radio 5 Live. Between 1995 and 1997, he was bi-media editor of national radio and television news programmes at BBC Scotland.[3] He joined The Scotsman newspaper in 1997 as Assistant Editor (News) and was promoted to the role of Deputy Editor in 1998, before briefly becoming the editor in 2000.[4]

Early life and career

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Luckhurst was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.[5] He was educated at Peebles High School in the Scottish Borders.[1] He studied history at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating in 1983.[1][5]

Between 1985 and 1988 he worked as parliamentary press officer for Donald Dewar (then Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland) and for the Scottish Labour group of MPs at Westminster. He stood as the Labour candidate for the Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency at the 1987 general election.[6] He was critical of the party in 2001[7] and joined the Scottish Conservatives in 2005.[8]

Career

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Journalism

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Between 1987 and 1995, Luckhurst worked for the BBC on Radio 4's Today and was a member of the editorial team that designed and launched BBC Radio 5 Live.[9] He covered the Romanian Revolution and the First Gulf War. He was the BBC's Washington, D.C. producer during the first year of the Clinton presidency and reported on the Waco Siege for BBC Radio. From 1995 to 1997 he was editor of national radio and television news programmes at BBC Scotland. Later he reported on the liberation of Kosovo and the fall of Slobodan Milošević for The Scotsman. Luckhurst joined The Scotsman as Assistant Editor in January 1997. He became Deputy Editor in January 1998 and was appointed Acting Editor in January 2000. He served as editor of The Scotsman between February and May 2000.[10][11] Luckhurst was diagnosed with clinical depression and took medical leave. He claimed to have been "sacked as a direct consequence of my diagnosis".[12]

Luckhurst is the author of Reporting the Second World War – The Press and the People 1939–1945 (London, Bloomsbury Academic 2023)[13] This Is Today – A Biography of the Today Programme (London, Aurum Press 2001) and Responsibility Without Power: Lord Justice Leveson's Constitutional Dilemma (Abramis Academic 2013)[14] and co-wrote Assessing the Delivery of BBC Radio 5 Live's Public Service Commitments (Abramis Academic 2019).[15]

In 2010, Luckhurst wrote a chapter Compromising the First Draft for the book Afghanistan War and the Media.[16] In 2017, he contributed a chapter entitled Online and On Death Row: Historicising Newspapers in Crisis to the Routledge Companion to British Media History.[17] He also contributed a chapter to the book, The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial. This chapter formed the basis of his submission to the Leveson Inquiry.[18]

He has written for various publications including The Independent, The Guardian,[19] the New Statesman, The Spectator, The Times,[9] The New Republic,[20] The Los Angeles Times ,[21] and The Globe and Mail.[22]

Academic career

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In June 2007 he became professor of journalism and the news industry at the University of Kent's new Centre for Journalism.[23] Luckhurst's academic research explores newspaper journalism during the first and second world wars and the era of appeasement. He has published in journals including Journalism Studies,[24] Contemporary British History,[25] 1914–1918 Online: The International Encyclopedia of the First World War,[26] British Journalism Review,[27] Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics[28] and George Orwell Studies.[29] In May 2017 Luckhurst gave the keynote lecture Inspiring Critical and Ethical Journalism at the Orwell Society's annual conference.[30] His work has also been published in academic collections including Writing the First World War after 1918.[31]

At Kent, Luckhurst was a member of the team that launched KM Television,[32] a local television station for Kent and Medway. In 2012, Luckhurst was quoted by The New York Times about the BBC's changes to its journalistic standards and bureaucratic procedures. Luckhurst stated that the BBC "wanted systems that could take responsibility instead of people".[33] As Head of the University of Kent's Centre for Journalism, Luckhurst led opposition to Lord Justice Leveson's proposal for officially sanctioned regulation of the British press. In Responsibility without Power: Lord Justice Leveson's Constitutional Dilemma he argued that "An officially regulated press is the glib, easy, dangerous solution. It would spell the slow, painful death of a raucous, audacious and impertinent press able to speak truth to power on behalf of its readers and entertaining enough to secure their loyalty".[34]

In November 2019 he joined Durham University as the principal of the new South College,[35] and associate pro-vice-chancellor (engagement).

In December 2021 Luckhurst was involved in controversy over a Christmas formal held at Durham University's South College, during which Luckhurst's friend Rod Liddle was invited to speak. Liddle's speech included remarks that "a person with an X and a Y chromosome, that has a long, dangling penis, is scientifically a man" and "colonialism is not remotely the major cause of Africa's problems, just as [...] the educational underachievement of British people of Caribbean descent or African Americans is nothing to do with institutional or structural racism", prompting accusations of transphobia and racism. Some students left in protest before Liddle began to speak and several more left during his speech. Luckhurst shouted at students who walked out before the speech, calling them "pathetic".[36][37] Luckhurst stepped back from some duties while the university investigated.[38][39] Upon the conclusion of the investigation Luckhurst resumed all his duties as principal of the college and associate pro-vice-chancellor, and the report was left unpublished.[40][41] The Times stated that a shift to calling for Luckhurst's resignation was understood to have taken place after his wife, Dorothy, branded students "a bunch of inadequates".[42]

Board memberships

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Luckhurst is a member of the editorial board of the media outlet The Conversation UK,[43] and a member of the Advisory Council of Don't Divide Us,[44] an organisation that promotes a "colour-blind" approach to anti-racism and critiques the implementation of Critical Race Theory in public institutions.[45]

Media

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BBC Scotland

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In July 2022, Luckhurst called former BBC Scotland lawyer Alistair Bonnington "astute and brave" following Bonnington's claim that the corporation was "slavishly biased in favour of the SNP who now form the devolved Holyrood government".[46]

Personal life

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In 1989, Luckhurst married Dorothy Williamson, who stood as the Conservative Party candidate in Blaydon in the 2005 general election, having been on the Conservative A-List.[47][48]

The couple have four children; three daughters and one son.[5] One of their daughters, Phoebe,[49] is an author and features editor at the Evening Standard.[50]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Staff: Profiles: Tim Luckhurst". kent.ac.uk. University of Kent. Retrieved 3 October 2016.[dead link]
  2. ↑ "Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent – Go and find something out". centreforjournalism.co.uk.[failed verification]
  3. ↑ "Journalism professor for new Kent degree". Press Gazette. 29 May 2007.
  4. ↑ Muir, Hugh (29 April 2013). "Diary: Enemies; friends. Everyone falls out over Rupert". The Guardian.
  5. 1 2 3 "Luckhurst, Prof. Timothy Colin Harvey". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2010. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.251437.
  6. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (14 September 2000). "The future is bright, the future is selective". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022.
  7. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (31 October 2001). "I can no longer support this sleazy, squalid and corrupt political party". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "Ex-Dewar aide joins Tories as he praises Cameron". The Herald. 9 December 2005.
  9. 1 2 "Prof Luckhurst". Durham University.
  10. ↑ "The History of The Scotsman". The Scotsman Digital Archive. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  11. ↑ Garside, Juliette (2 June 2000). "First Woman Editor for The Scotsman". PRWeek. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  12. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (27 June 2001). "Resist the depression industry". The Independent.
  13. ↑ "Reporting the Second World War". Bloomsbury.
  14. ↑ "Responsibility without Power". abramis.co.uk.
  15. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim; Cocking, Ben; Reeves, Ian; Bailey, Rob (2019). Assessing the Delivery of BBC Radio 5 Live's Public Service Commitments. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK: Abramis Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84549-739-2.
  16. ↑ Keeble, Richard; Mair, John (2010). Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines. Bury St Edmunds: Arima. ISBN 978-1-84549-444-5. OCLC 701111958.
  17. ↑ "The Routledge Companion to British Media History".
  18. ↑ Tim Luckhurst (February 2012). "Missing the Target and Spurning the Prize" (PDF). Leveson Inquiry. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014.
  19. ↑ Tim Luckhurst, The Guardian contributor page
  20. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (22 April 2002). "Home Base". The New Republic.
  21. ↑ "Op-Ed: Odds are still against a Labor Party victory in the U.K." Los Angeles Times. 2 June 2017.
  22. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (26 February 2008). "Opinion: With friends like these". The Globe and Mail.
  23. ↑ "Journalism professor for new Kent degree". Press Gazette. 29 May 2007.
  24. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (2014). "An Unworkable Policy Which Encourages The Enemy to Fight to The Last Gasp". Journalism Studies. 16 (6): 887–903.
  25. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim; Phippen, Lesley (1 March 2016). "The playwright who dramatised his own war record: a reassessment of William Douglas-Home's accounts of his refusal to fight for the liberation of Le Havre". Contemporary British History. 30 (3): 389–406.
  26. ↑ "War Correspondents | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)". encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net.
  27. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (1 September 2021). "Bad radio, awful pictures". British Journalism Review. 32 (3): 7–8. doi:10.1177/09564748211042744. ISSN 0956-4748.
  28. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim C. H. (2016). "A sovereign editor: Arthur Mann's Yorkshire Post and its crusade against appeasement, 1938–1939". Ethical Space, the International Journal of Communications Ethics.
  29. ↑ "George Orwell Studies Vol.2 No.1".
  30. ↑ "Teaching Orwell: George Orwell Studies Conference 2017". 26 May 2017.
  31. ↑ Writing the First World War after 1918. Journalism studies. Theory and practice. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2019. ISBN 9781138601956.
  32. ↑ "KMTV – TV made for Kent". Kent Online.
  33. ↑ Lyall, Sarah; Kulish, Nicholas (15 November 2012). "Crises at BBC Brought Rules, then a Failure". The New York Times.
  34. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim C. H. (1 October 2012), Responsibility without Power: Lord Justice Leveson's constitutional dilemma, Abramis
  35. ↑ Durham University [@durham_uni] (5 July 2019). "We are delighted to announce the appointment of five new Heads of College who will join us in 2019/20. @TCHL @maggidawn @SimonForrest1 @RobLynes" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  36. ↑ Askham, Poppy; Kendix, Max (4 December 2021). "South Principal calls students "pathetic" for protest over "transphobic" guest". Palatinate. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  37. ↑ Dixon, Will (5 December 2021). "University "categorically" disagrees with Liddle South College comments". Palatinate. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
  38. ↑ "Durham University college principal steps back amid Liddle walk-out probe". BBC News. 9 December 2021.
  39. ↑ Long, Antony (10 March 2022). "Statements from Durham University on South College dinner". Durham University. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  40. ↑ Rossiter, Joe (11 February 2022). "Students avoid formal as South Principal returns to duties". Palatinate. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  41. ↑ Graham, Leah (14 February 2022). "Durham University refuses to publish report investigating Rod Liddle's speech". The Courier Online.
  42. ↑ Ball, Tom (27 January 2022). "Durham University hushes up report in Rod Liddle row". The Times.
  43. ↑ "Tim Luckhurst". The Conversation. 4 May 2020.
  44. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (31 August 2023). "The Left's tactics of the Inquisition are stifling free speech at our universities". The Evening Standard. p. A11 – via newspapers.com.
  45. ↑ "Contested racial views taught as fact, says pressure group". The Times. 11 July 2023.
  46. ↑ Richards, Xander (16 July 2022). "BBC Scotland accused of 'slavish and reverential' bias towards SNP". The National. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  47. ↑ "Electoral Calculus – 2005". 15 October 2011. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  48. ↑ "Who is on the A-list?". ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidates blog. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  49. ↑ Luckhurst, Tim (18 February 2003). "Pin-ups and make-up – don't teenage girls deserve better?". The Independent. p. media 9.
  50. ↑ "Books". Evening Standard. 2 July 2021. p. A15.
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