Kurt Barling Explained

Birth Place:London, England
Occupation:Journalist and academic
Education:City of London Polytechnic
London School of Economics; Paris Institute of Political Studies

J. Kurt Barling (born November 1961)[1] is a British professor of journalism at Middlesex University.[2] [3] He previously worked as a journalist for the BBC for 25 years[4] [5] and before that as a lecturer at the London School of Economics.[6] In 1997, he won the CRE's Reporter of the Year award. He is also an author and has been an independent film producer.

Biography

Kurt Barling was born in 1961, of mixed Anglo-Irish and African heritage, in north London,[7] [8] where he attended comprehensive school. He gained a BA (Hons) First-Class degree in Politics & Modern Languages from City of London Polytechnic, before winning scholarships to do postgraduate work at the London School of Economics and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris),[9] earning an MSc in Government and a PhD in International Relations, and going on to lecture in LSE's International Relations Department.[10]

Barling was motivated to become a journalist after observing the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots at first hand.[11] In 1989, he joined the BBC, where over the following 25 years he worked on a wide range of prestigious news and current affairs programmes, on both television and radio, including Newsnight, Today, The Money Programme and Black Britain. He covered many stories internationally and has made dozens of documentaries. From 1997 to 2000, he was a BBC News Correspondent, left briefly in 2000 before returning year as a freelancer with BBC London,[12] and from 2001 to 2014 was the Special Correspondent for BBC London News, writing a weekly online column for seven years known latterly as the blog "Barling's London".[13] [14] Barling was one of the BBC's longest-serving ethnic minority journalists. He has also worked as an independent film producer.

Among numerous awards Barling has received for his journalism, film-making and writing, in 1997 he won the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) "Reporter of the Year" award, as well as several other industry awards.

Since 2012 he has been teaching and researching in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University, becoming Professor of Journalism in November 2013.[15] [16] [17]

In 2016 Barling edited and wrote an introduction to the book Finsternis in Deutschland, a translation of E. Amy Buller's Darkness over Germany, originally published in English in 1943 during World War II.[18] A copy of the book was presented to the Queen, who had met Buller in 1944 after the book's first publication.[19]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kurt BARLING - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House).
  2. Web site: Prof Kurt Barling - Middlesex University London.
  3. http://www.speakers4schools.org/speakers/kurt-barling/ Kurt Barling biography
  4. Web site: BBC 'doesn't respect or value ethnic minority staff', says axed reporter. Keith Perry. The Telegraph. 20 April 2014.
  5. Web site: Kurt Barling - The University of Nottingham.
  6. Web site: Kurt Barling. TV Features. BBC London.
  7. Kurt Barling, "Introduction", The 'R' Word, Biteback Publishing, 2015.
  8. Kurt Barling, "Racism is not my only issue with race", Irish Times, 22 December 2015.
  9. http://www.digital-awards.eu/prof-kurt-barling/ "Prof. Dr Kurt Barling"
  10. http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/worldstage/15Feb2012.aspx "LSE Alumnus"
  11. Web site: Kurt Barling - Professor of Journalism, Middlesex University - Media Masters.
  12. Elizabeth Pears, "A Critical Friend", The Voice, 4 May 2014.
  13. Kurt Barling, "TV Features: Benefits of diversity", BBC London, 29 May 2007.
  14. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/kurtbarling/2011/03/tales_of_slavery_in_modern_lon.html "Barling's London"
  15. https://www.journalismatmiddlesex.co.uk/news Journalism at Middlesex.
  16. https://theconversation.com/profiles/kurt-barling-157203 Kurt Barling page
  17. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/2013/11/inaugural-lecture-professor-kurt-barling "Inaugural lecture: Professor Kurt Barling"
  18. https://mdxminds.com/2016/06/09/darkness-over-germany/ "Darkness over Germany"
  19. https://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/about-us/darkness-over-germany "Darkness over Germany"

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