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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 previously worked for, Haymarket Publishing, Independent Broadcasting Authority, The Times and Centaur Media PLC.
Author of The Complete Guide to Advertising, 1987
In 2014, Torin 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.
Torin Douglas MBE, best known in 2024 in Chiswick as the director of the Chiswick Book Festival, has received an award from the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) for his work over 30 years supporting the broadcasting industry.
Torin Douglas is married to Carol, with whom he has two sons, Richard and Michael, and daughter, Ellie.
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