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Torin Douglas
BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas is hanging up his mic and cans after
nearly 24 years in the job. News that Douglas is taking voluntary redundancy
emerged on Thursday (18 Apr 2013), when it was also reported by PR Week that
another former member of the media hack pack, the FT's Ben Fenton, is joining PR
firm Edelman.
Douglas said there's no prospect of him going over to the
dark side. "I want to spend a bit less time working, after being on call 24
hours a day for 24 years," Douglas said, with characteristic understatement.
"But I'm not going to stop covering media. I hope to speak a bit and write a
bit." He will also be keeping up his sterling work as treasurer of the
Broadcasting Press Guild.
Douglas previously worked for, Haymarket Publishing, Independent Broadcasting
Authority, The Times and Centaur Media PLC.
Author of The Complete Guide to Advertising, 1987
In 2014, Totin wrote: I left BBC News in June 2013 after 24 years as its
media correspondent - and 40 years reporting and analysing media issues, for the
business press, newspapers and broadcasters. I'm now speaking, writing and
chairing events about the media, community issues and Chiswick, for a wide range
of organisations, including the Radio Academy, the Voice of the Listener &
Viewer, the IPPR and several universities and commercial firms. I've just
written a chapter of the book Is the BBC in Crisis? I'm the director of the
Chiswick Book Festival and was awarded the MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for
services to the community in Chiswick. I work with the Media Trust, which brings
charities and the media together, and I'm a trustee of the Sandford St Martin
Trust, which runs the annual awards for excellence in religious broadcasting. I
am a Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire and have an Honorary
Doctorate of Letters from the University of West London.
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