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Frank Partridge
Frank is a travel writer, media consultant and university lecturer following a 25-year career as a news and current affairs anchorman and correspondent. He joined BBC Radio Ones trail-blazing Newsbeat programme in 1978 and was chief presenter for much of the 1980s. During this period, he developed a side-string broadcasting career in sport, reporting and presenting for BBC Radio 2 and 4, World Service radio and Grandstand on BBC television.
In 1991, Frank co-presented PM on BBC Radio 4 with Valerie Singleton, winning a Sony Award for their coverage of Margaret Thatchers resignation. Franks final BBC assignment was the inauguration of President Clinton in early 1993, before a switch of channels and media to join the emerging Sky News as one of their prime time anchors, this time in harness with Selina Scott. Over the next eight years, Frank won two Royal Television Society awards for coverage of breaking stories, and presented the channels daily phone-in and World News programmes.
Frank writes mainly for The Independent newspaper and lectures on journalism at the University of the Arts in London and the University of Hertfordshire. |
