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Mary Hockaday
Hockaday at the International Journalism Festival 2017
Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Assumed office
1 October 2022
Preceded byJeremy Morris
Controller of BBC World Service, English
In office
2014–2021
Preceded byRichard Porter
Succeeded byJon Zilkha
Personal details
Born
Anne Mary Hockaday

(1962-05-31) 31 May 1962 (age 61)
Oxford, England
EducationOxford High School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
New York University
Websitewww.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/contact-us/contact-directory/fellows-and-academics-directory/mary-hockaday/ Edit this at Wikidata

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

  1. ^ a b "Anne Mary HOCKADAY". London: Companies House.
  2. ^ a b "Mary Hockaday, Head of Multimedia Newsroom". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Mary Hockaday: Controller, BBC World Service English". bbc.co.uk.
  4. ^ a b "Mary Hockaday takes up post as Master". trinhall.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. ^ a b Holmwood, Leigh (16 April 2009). "BBC names Mary Hockaday head of TV, radio and online news". theguardian.com. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Trinity Hall Elects New Master". trinhall.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ^ "People: Mary Hockaday". bl.uk.
  8. ^ Mary Hockaday at Library of Congress


Media offices Preceded byRichard Porter Controller of BBC World Service, English 2014 to 2021 Succeeded byJon Zilkha Academic offices Preceded byJeremy Morris Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 2022 to present Incumbent
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