Stewart Purvis

Stewart Purvis

Stewart Purvis is Partner, Content & Standards and began his broadcasting career at the BBC and then moved to ITN where he rose to become Editor-in-Chief and then Chief Executive from 1995-2003. During his time as Editor of Channel Four News in the early eighties he won two British Academy Awards and is often credited with having turned the programme into the success it has become.

In 2003 he was made the first Chair of Television Journalism in the Department of Journalism at City University, London. Mr Purvis was also News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University in 2005.

He was a regular newspaper columnist and broadcaster and a consultant to broadcasters. In 2000 he received a CBE for services to broadcast journalism.