Mary Hockaday | |
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Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge | |
Assumed office 1 October 2022 | |
Preceded by | Jeremy Morris |
Controller of BBC World Service,English | |
In office 2014–2021 | |
Preceded by | Richard Porter |
Succeeded by | Jon Zilkha |
Personal details | |
Born | Anne Mary Hockaday 31 May 1962 Oxford,England |
Education | Oxford High School |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge New York University |
Website | www |
Anne Mary Hockaday (born 31 May 1962) [1] is a British journalist and academic administrator. Since October 2022,she has been Master of Trinity Hall,Cambridge. She was previously head of the BBC Multimedia Newsroom, [2] and controller of BBC World Service English. [3]
Hockaday was born in Oxford,attending Oxford High School,an all-girls private school. She studied English at the University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall,Cambridge. [4] Then,as a Fulbright Scholar,she studied journalism (MA) at New York University.
She joined the BBC as a World Service production trainee in 1986. [5] She worked as a correspondent in Prague in the early 1990s and as a reporter,editor,producer for World Service news output. She was also the editor of The World Today.
She was the editor of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs (2001–2006), [6] managing daily and weekly news and current affairs output for 9/11,Afghanistan and the Invasion of Iraq. Her department won a special Sony Gold award for its 9/11 coverage. [2]
In 2007,she became deputy head of the BBC Newsroom,leading the On-Demand,Radio and Mediawire teams. [5] In April 2009,she became Head of the Multimedia Newsroom. In October 2014 she was appointed controller of BBC World Service English. She left the BBC in 2021. [6]
On 31 May 2022,it was announced that she was to become the next Master of Trinity Hall,Cambridge,in succession to Jeremy Morris. [6] She took up the post on 1 October 2022. [4]
She serves as director of the Girls' Day School Trust a group of 25 private schools in the UK [1] and a trustee of the British Library. [7]
Hockaday is the author of a biography of Milena Jesenská,a Czech journalist and muse of Franz Kafka. [8]
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