{{Short description|British broadcaster, executive, author and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Stewart Peter Purvis''' CBE<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/584037.stm|title=Trio of Dames lead showbiz honours |publisher=BBC News|access-date=29 May 2011|date=31 December 1999}}</ref> is a British broadcaster, broadcasting executive, author and academic.
Purvis is married with three children.
==Education== Purvis was educated at Southville School, a state primary in Feltham, West London then Dulwich College, an independent school for boys in Dulwich in South London. He graduated with a BA in Politics from the University of Exeter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Journalists-backgrounds-final-report.pdf|title=The Educational Backgrounds of Leading Journalists – Page 20: NEWS EDITORS/PRODUCERS (18)|work=The Sutton Trust|date=15 June 2006|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>
== TV Journalism == Stewart's media career began as a local radio reporter, a regional television presenter and a Sunday tabloid freelance while still at university. He was then chosen as one of the BBC's first three News Trainees in 1969. He moved to ITN in 1972 where he went on to win Royal Television Society awards<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-23 |url=https://rts.org.uk/person/stewart-purvis-cbe |website=Royal Television Society |url-status=live |archive-date=2023-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718091510/https://rts.org.uk/person/stewart-purvis-cbe |title= Stewart Purvis CBE |language=en |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref> for news and documentaries, two BAFTA awards as Editor of Channel Four News <ref>{{Cite web|title=Television in 1988 {{!}} BAFTA Awards|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1988/television/news-or-outside-broadcast-coverage;%20http://awards.bafta.org/award/1987/television/news-or-outside-broadcast-coverage|access-date=2021-01-03|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref> and also collected a TV Times award and even an ‘Office Building of the Year’ award for ITN’s Norman Foster -designed headquarters in Gray's Inn Road, London.
Purvis became the third editor of ITN's Channel 4 News in 1983 after a troubled launch and is generally credited with creating the programme in its current ethos.<ref name="ITN">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jun/05/itv.tvnews|title=Purvis steps down at ITN|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=29 May 2011|location=London|first=Matt|last=Wells|date=5 June 2003}}</ref>
While editing Channel Four News he also produced a 1985–86 TV project with the Prince and Princess of Wales. ‘Talking Personally’ was one of the top ten most-watched programmes of 1985 and the two-part documentary ‘In Private, In Public’ was watched by 18.45 million, putting it into the top five programmes of 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TV since 1981 {{!}} BARB|url=https://www.barb.co.uk/resources/tv-facts/tv-since-1981/|access-date=2021-01-03|language=en-GB}}</ref>
In December 1992 he broke the story of the separation of the Prince and Princess on the ITV Lunchtime News, before the announcement later that day by Prime Minister John Major.
In 1987 Purvis was promoted to Editor of ITN and subsequently its chief executive and editor-in-chief. During his time heading ITN he was also president of the international news channel, EuroNews, based in Lyon, France. He helped to launch EuroNews into Russia as the country’s first news channel in Russian on terrestrial television<ref>{{Cite web|date=1997-12-11|title=ITN gets the licence to broadcast its appeal|url=https://www.marketingweek.com/itn-gets-the-licence-to-broadcast-its-appeal/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Marketing Week|language=en}}</ref>
After ITN’s successful coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, Purvis retired from the company after 31 years <ref name="ITN" /> and began a career in academia. In November 2007 Purvis became Content and Standards Partner at the UK regulator OFCOM, effectively the regulator of UK broadcast content, responsible for the implementation of the Ofcom Broadcast Code and other broadcasting regulation, a position he held until 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/may/21/stewart-purvis-ofcom|title=Stewart Purvis to leave Ofcom|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=29 May 2011|location=London|first=Mark|last=Sweney|date=21 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="Channel 4" />
He also chaired the UK Government’s Media Literacy Working Group{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} and was one of the founders of the online academic resource Newsfilm Online.<ref>{{cite web|last=Twitter|first=Paul McNally|date=10 October 2008|title=ITN makes 100 years of news available to students|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/itn-makes-100-years-of-news-available-to-students/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US}}</ref> He was on the panel set up by the BBC Governors to report on the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-05-03|title=BBC's coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'misleading'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/03/israel.broadcasting|access-date=2021-01-03|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
In 2000 he was made a CBE for services to broadcast journalism, in 2005 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Law by Exeter University<ref>{{Cite web|title=The University of Exeter – Honorary Graduates – Previous Honorary Graduates|url=https://www.exeter.ac.uk/honorarygraduates/2008/prev_hongrads.shtml|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.exeter.ac.uk}}</ref> and in 2009 he received the Royal Television Society’s Gold Medal for an outstanding contribution to television.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Townend|first=Judith|date=2009-02-27|title=Royal Television Society journalism award winners in full|url=https://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/02/27/royal-television-society-journalism-award-winners-in-full/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Editors Blog {{!}} Journalism.co.uk|language=en-US}}</ref> He has also been a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications.<ref>{{Cite web|title=House of Lords – Communications – Minutes of Evidence|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/7102403.htm|access-date=2021-01-03|website=publications.parliament.uk}}</ref>
He has been a regular expert commentator on media matters and a columnist for the Financial Times and London Evening Standard. In 2011 he made a BBC Radio Four documentary ‘When Reporters Cross the Line'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017vdhp|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.bbc.co.uk|title=BBC Radio 4 – Archive on 4, when Reporters Cross the Line}}</ref>
Since September 2013 Purvis has been a non-executive Director of Channel 4.<ref name="Channel 4">{{cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/corporate/about-4/who-we-are/board|title=Discover our Board |publisher=Channel 4|access-date=8 February 2019}}</ref> His appointment runs until March 2021.
Purvis is a non-executive director of Brentford FC and was appointed in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Board of Directors update|url=https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/2019/february/board-update-28.02.19/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.brentfordfc.com|language=en-gb|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116002216/https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/2019/february/board-update-28.02.19/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is Chairman of the Brentford Supporters Trust ‘Bees United’<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-02|title=STEWART PURVIS'S MESSAGE TO BU MEMBERS|url=https://www.beesunited.org.uk/in-focus/stewart-purvis-s-message-to-bu-members/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Bees United|language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Academic == Purvis was the first Professor of Television Journalism at City University, London.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-10-06|title=Purvis gets TV post at City University|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/06/tvnews.television|access-date=2021-01-03|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> In 2004-5 he was News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city.ac.uk/arts/academic-staff-profiles/professor-stewart-purvis|title=Professor Stewart Purvis|publisher=City University London|access-date=29 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610105230/http://www.city.ac.uk/arts/academic-staff-profiles/professor-stewart-purvis|archive-date=10 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Channel 4"/>
== Author == Purvis has co-authored 2 books with Jeff Hulbert, media historian and honorary research fellow in the Journalism Department at City University, London: * {{cite book | url=https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/when-reporters-cross-the-line | title=When Reporters Cross The Line | publisher=Biteback Publishing | author=Jeff Hulbert and Stewart Purvis | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-84954-646-1}} * {{cite book|last1= Purvis|first1= Stewart|last2= Hulbert|first2= Jeff|url= https://archive.org/details/guyburgessspywho0000purv|title= Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone|publisher= Biteback Publishing|location= London|year= 2016|isbn= 978-1-84954-913-4|url-access= registration}}
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