Mark Carruthers

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Mark Carruthers
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast
Occupation(s) Broadcaster and Journalist

Mark Carruthers OBE (born 1965) is a Northern Irish journalist. He currently presents a number of television and radio programmes for BBC Northern Ireland.

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Broadcasting work

Carruthers first joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1989 contributing to Good Morning Ulster and PM Ulster on BBC Radio Ulster. [1]

In addition to having presented BBC Newsline, he has also presented Spotlight and Let's Talk for television and Evening Extra on BBC Radio Ulster. [2]

In August 2009, Carruthers became part of the presenting team of Good Morning Ulster as part of a series of presenter changes at BBC Radio Ulster. [3]

He is now the presenter of The View [4] and Sunday Politics on BBC One Northern Ireland. [5] He also presents the weekly politics podcast Red Lines on BBC Sounds.

He has been nominated for four Royal Television Society awards for his work – in 2022, 2020, 2018 and 2003. In 2005 he and his BBC Newsline co-presenter, Donna Traynor, lifted a prestigious IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) for Best News Programme.

Personal life

Carruthers was born in Derry, grew up in Limavady, County Londonderry, studied at Coleraine Academical Institution [6] and went on to study for degrees in Political Science and Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast. [2]

Carruthers has an interest in the theatre. He was one of the founders of Tinderbox Theatre Company in 1988 [6] and took part in drama groups at college and university, including a stage appearance in a Riverside Theatre, Coleraine, production of Oliver! alongside James Nesbitt. [6] He was Chairman of the Lyric Theatre Board until 2015 and was at the forefront of the campaign to rebuild the theatre on its south Belfast site for almost ten years. [2] [7]

He was appointed an OBE for services to drama in Northern Ireland in the 2011 New Year Honours list.

He is co-editor of Stepping Stones - The Arts in Ulster 1971-2001 which was published by Blackstaff Press in 2001. [8] In 2013 Alternative Ulsters – Conversations on Identity was published by Liberties Press, a series of interviews by Carruthers with leading writers, actors, journalists and politicians. The book was a success and was re-issued in paperback in December 2014. The following year Alternative Ulsters was shortlisted for the prestigious Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.

In July 2019 Carruthers was awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Literature) from Queen's University Belfast for distinction in broadcasting. In November 2023 he was awarded a Visiting Professorship in Media at Ulster University.

He is married with three children and lives in south Belfast. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Belfast Telegraph: "Mark: 'I'm a real morning person'"; dated 31 August 2009, accessed 7 April 2010
  2. 1 2 3 4 BBCi: BBC Newsline - Meet The Team: Mark Carruthers' profile
  3. ↑ BBC Press Office: "Radio Ulster makes presenter changes to news and current affairs programmes" dated 11 August 2009; accessed 6 April 2010
  4. ↑ "The View - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sunday Politics Northern Ireland - Mark Carruthers - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 The Belfast Telegraph: "My passion": dated 29 December 1998; accessed 9 February 2009
  7. ↑ Lyric Theatre - Education Programme Archived 2009-02-17 at the Wayback Machine : accessed 9 February 2009
  8. ↑ "Mark Carruthers: Confessions of a political anorak". 17 September 2016.
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