# Richard Mackney

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**Richard Mackney** is an English journalist and broadcaster, probably best known as a reporter on [ITV](/source/ITV_Network) breakfast show, [GMTV](/source/GMTV).

## Background

Mackney was born in April 1971 in [Emsworth](/source/Emsworth), Hampshire. He was educated at [De La Salle College](/source/De_La_Salle_College_(Jersey)) in Jersey, [St Boniface's College](/source/St_Boniface's_College) in Plymouth, and studied law at the [University of Birmingham](/source/University_of_Birmingham).

## Career

Richard Mackney began his broadcasting career in 1996 in Bristol as a video-journalist and presenter at 24-hour cable news station, Channel One Television, which was owned by [Associated Newspapers](/source/Associated_Newspapers). A year later he joined BBC South in Southampton as a reporter and presenter.

In 1998 he became a correspondent for ITV breakfast show, [GMTV](/source/List_of_GMTV_presenters_and_reporters), specialising in the ‘lighter’ news stories of the day.[1] He went freelance in 2000 and continued to make occasional appearances on [GMTV](/source/GMTV) as well as presenting *Gagging For It*,[2] a comedy ‘gong’ show on [ITV2](/source/ITV2), and a weekly movies show on [Sky Movies](/source/Sky_Movies).

Along with [Claudia Winkleman](/source/Claudia_Winkleman) and [Keith Duffy](/source/Keith_Duffy), Mackney was a reporter on ITV1’s short-lived celebrity news show, *Celebrity!*, hosted by [Andi Peters](/source/Andi_Peters) and [Penny Smith](/source/Penny_Smith), and in 2003 became the roving reporter on [BBC Three](/source/BBC_Three)’s live, weekly celebrity stock exchange show, [Celebdaq](/source/Celebdaq), presented by [Paddy O'Connell](/source/Paddy_O'Connell).

In 2004 he became an entertainment reporter for [E! Entertainment](/source/E!_Entertainment), covering UK movie premieres and, in 2005, was a regular stand-in presenter[3] on London’s [LBC 97.3](/source/LBC_97.3), filling in for [Paul Ross](/source/Paul_Ross) and [Iain Lee](/source/Iain_Lee), among others.

He helped launch edfest.tv,[4] an online TV channel covering the [Edinburgh Festival](/source/Edinburgh_Festival), and, in 2008, co-presented a weekly, Saturday morning breakfast show on LBC.[5][6]

In 2010 he appeared on [Family Fortunes](/source/Family_Fortunes) on ITV1 as part of Penny Smith’s team and, in 2011, provided the voice-over for Saturday morning BBC show, [Dick and Dom's Funny Business](/source/Dick_and_Dom's_Funny_Business).

Mackney now mainly works as a freelance writer and producer.

He is the co-author of '*Get A Life: His & Hers Survival Guide To IVF*',[7] published by [Orion Publishing Group](/source/Orion_Publishing_Group) in 2015.

## References

1. ['Blair Said To Prefer GMTV For Morning News', The Guardian, 16 July 1999](https://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/jul/16/mondaymediasection.broadcasting)

1. ['Sick, but oh so slick', Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 15 Oct 2002](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-1608223-sick-but-oh-so-slick.do)[dead link]

1. [Digital Spy, 26 August 2005](https://archive.today/20120709190457/http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/lbc/message/4767)

1. ['We Are Telly Addicts', The Skinny, 31 July 2008](http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/43400-we-are-telly-addicts-edfesttv---edinburgh-festivals-2008)

1. [The Guardian, 9 May 2008](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/may/09/globalradio.radio)

1. [LBC: Richard Mackney podcast](http://lbc.audioagain.com/index.php?channel_id=295&player=showchannel&sid=1)

1. [*Rosie Bray and Richard Mackney - Get A Life - Orion Publishing Group*](https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/Books/detail.page?isbn=9781409155010)

## External links

- [Richard Mackney](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1833274/) at IMDb

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