Mary Hockaday
Mary Hockaday | |
|---|---|
Hockaday at the International Journalism Festival 2017 | |
| Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Jeremy Morris |
| Controller of BBC World Service, English | |
| In office 2014–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Porter |
| Succeeded by | Jon Zilkha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Anne Mary Hockaday 31 May 1962 Oxford, England |
| Education | Oxford High School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge New York University |
| Website | www |
Anne Mary Hockaday (born 31 May 1962)[1] is a British journalist and academic administrator. Since October 2022, she has been Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She was previously head of the BBC Multimedia Newsroom,[2] and controller of BBC World Service English.[3]
Early life
Hockaday was born in Oxford, attending Oxford High School, an all-girls private school. She studied English at the University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[4] Then, as a Fulbright Scholar, she studied journalism (MA) at New York University.
Career
She joined the BBC as a World Service production trainee in 1986.[5] She worked as a correspondent in Prague in the early 1990s and as a reporter, editor, producer for World Service news output. She was also the editor of The World Today.
She was the editor of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs (2001–2006),[6] managing daily and weekly news and current affairs output for 9/11, Afghanistan and the Invasion of Iraq. Her department won a special Sony Gold award for its 9/11 coverage.[2]
In 2007, she became deputy head of the BBC Newsroom, leading the On-Demand, Radio and Mediawire teams.[5] In April 2009, she became Head of the Multimedia Newsroom. In October 2014 she was appointed controller of BBC World Service English. She left the BBC in 2021.[6]
On 31 May 2022, it was announced that she was to become the next Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in succession to Jeremy Morris.[6] She took up the post on 1 October 2022.[4]
She serves as director of the Girls' Day School Trust a group of 25 private schools in the UK[1] and a trustee of the British Library.[7]
Hockaday is the author of a biography of Milena Jesenská, a Czech journalist and muse of Franz Kafka.[8]
References
- ^ a b "Anne Mary HOCKADAY". London: Companies House.
- ^ a b "Mary Hockaday, Head of Multimedia Newsroom". BBC. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Mary Hockaday: Controller, BBC World Service English". BBC. 18 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Mary Hockaday takes up post as Master". University of Cambridge. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ a b Holmwood, Leigh (16 April 2009). "BBC names Mary Hockaday head of TV, radio and online news". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ a b c "Trinity Hall Elects New Master". University of Cambridge. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ "People: Mary Hockaday". bl.uk.
- ^ Mary Hockaday at Library of Congress