Introduction

Dr. Chris Park (Principal of the Graduate College):

"The purpose of these lectures is really to add a different dimension to what we have in normal classes and courses so we are trying to invite a series of speakers who have interesting material to share with us. Tonight I am very pleased to welcome Ken Brassington, who if you have seen to posters advertising this lecture you'll see him described as a freelance journalist and former TV news editor and I am very grateful that I have been able to find out a little bit to tell you about Ken so that you can see what his background is and why he says the things that he does say. Ken was formerly a weekly newspaper editor, and he worked in Fleet Street, when Fleet Street was the centre of the newspaper industry in Britain. He was a sub-editor for the News Chronicle, for the Daily Mirror and for the Telegraph Newspaper Group. In 1961 he joined BBC Radio News as a sub-editor and then two years after that he joined BBC TV News. He went from sound to vision, where he worked as producer and senior deputy editor for twelve years. More recently, Ken has been working with World Wide Television News Agency as a writer and producer. He was educated at an un-named Grammar School and is a graduate of Calham Theological College and amongst other distinctions he holds the Newspaper Industry Diploma of Journalism.