David Kogan Explained

David Barnett Kogan (born September 1957)[1] is a British media executive, historian and journalist, living in London.[2] He has worked as both a journalist and a senior executive at the BBC, Reuters Television, Granada Channels, Wasserman Media Group and Magnum Photos. He has written about the history of the Labour Party.[3]

Career

Kogan was educated at Haverstock Comprehensive School in Camden, London; and at Balliol College, Oxford.[4]

From 1982 he was a producer at BBC Radio working on Today; at BBC Television working on Newsnight and Breakfast Time; and at BBC America.[4] From 1988 he was managing editor and then global managing director at Reuters Television.[4] [5] From 1996 he was executive director at Granada Channels.[6] In 1998 he co-founded media advisory company Reel Enterprises with Sara Munds, and was its Chief executive officer (CEO).[4] In 2011, Reel was acquired by Wasserman Media Group, where Kogan and Munds went to work in media rights.[7] In 2014 he and Munds left and set up Exile Enterprises.[4] Kogan was executive director / CEO of Magnum Photos[8] from 2015[4] [9] to 2019.[10]

Kogan was "the Premier League's chief media rights adviser from 1998 to 2015 and a key architect of its global financial success".[11] [12] Other media rights clients have included the English Football League, Premiership Rugby, the International Olympic Committee and the National Football League (NFL).[4] He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2014 Birthday Honours for services to diplomacy, having been asked to provide advice on FCO Services funds.[4] [13] [14] While at Magnum in 2018, prompted by allegations of sexual misconduct against two of its photographers, Kogan led the agency in creating a formal code of conduct for both its photographers and staff.[15] [16]

Kogan's first book was The Battle for the Labour Party, published with his uncle, Maurice Kogan, in 1981.[17] The later Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party (2019) is a 400-page book that builds on the earlier work, based on many interviews. William Davies described the latter work in The Guardian as a "meticulous review of four decades of intra-party struggles" up to February 2019.[18]

In April 2020 Kogan became a director of LabourList, an independent news site for the Labour Party.[19]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-02-05. David Kogan Limited - Company Profile - Endole. suite.endole.co.uk.
  2. Web site: 2021-02-03. David Kogan. www.bloomsbury.com.
  3. News: Rachel. Sylvester. 2021-02-03. Protest and Power by David Kogan review — the battle for the Labour Party. 0140-0460. www.thetimes.co.uk.
  4. Web site: 2021-02-03. 'Magnum is too important to fail. It will be saved and it is prospering'. 7 June 2015. The Guardian.
  5. Web site: 2021-02-05. Magnum Photos Becomes a TV Show. Time.
  6. Web site: Sue. Beenstock. 2021-02-03. Media: In Brief: Kogan joins Granada Channels. PRWeek.
  7. Web site: February 23, 2011. 2021-02-03. Wasserman Media Group Acquiring U.K.-Based Reel Enterprises. Sports Business Daily.
  8. News: 2021-02-03. Magnum CEO: Learn from the next generation. BBC News.
  9. Web site: 2021-02-03. The media industry 'has changed beyond all recognition': Magnum's new CEO on adapting to the digital landscape. The Art Newspaper.
  10. Web site: 2021-02-03. Magnum Photos CEO David Kogan leaves the agency 1 March. 22 February 2019. Photo Archive News.
  11. Web site: Jamie. Jackson. Paul. MacInnes. 2021-02-05. Liverpool among clubs to argue against paying €384m TV rebate. The Irish Times.
  12. Web site: 2021-02-05. Fear over Premiership TV deal. 15 December 2002. The Guardian.
  13. Web site: 2021-02-03. Queen's birthday honours list 2014: Diplomatic. 13 June 2014. The Guardian.
  14. Web site: 2021-02-03. In full: Queen's Birthday Honours List. www.scotsman.com.
  15. Web site: 2021-02-05. How photojournalism's biggest agencies are combating harassment. www.1854.photography.
  16. Web site: 2021-02-05. Magnum's moment of reckoning. Columbia Journalism Review.
  17. Web site: 2021-02-03. Protest or power? - British politics. The Times Literary Supplement.
  18. Web site: 2021-02-03. Protest and Power by David Kogan review – the battle for the Labour party. 13 April 2019. The Guardian.
  19. News: Keir Starmer's Labour Party: where are we now? . Kogan . David . LabourList . 12 July 2021 . 4 November 2021.
  20. News: 2021-02-03. Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party. 15 October 2019. 0015-7120. Foreign Affairs.
  21. News: Dominic. Sandbrook. 2021-02-03. Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party by David Kogan review — how the party ended up with Corbyn. 0140-0460. www.thetimes.co.uk.

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