Stewart Purvis

Ofcom Role:

Stewart is the Ofcom Partner responsible for content and standards. This covers the regulatory obligations in relation to basic standards (protection against harm, offence, and also the protection of accuracy, impartiality, fairness and privacy) that are placed upon all licensed tv and radio broadcasters and the BBC, as well as the special requirements placed upon public service broadcasters. It also includes responsibility for Ofcom’s oversight of the radio sector and the development of digital platforms and content. He is a member of the Content Board and Deputy Chairman of the Radio Licensing Committee.

Biography:

Stewart 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.