Richard Rudin

BRIEF CV OF RICHARD RUDIN

Current position: Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Liverpool John Moores University.

Address: Journalism, Dept., Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University, 2nd floor, Maxwell House, Liverpool Innovation Park, 360 Edge Lane, Liverpool L7 9NJ.

Tel(W): 0151 231 4841. E-mail: r.rudin@ljmu.ac.uk.

Richard initially trained and qualified as a newspaper journalist and, after his passing his National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) Proficiency Test (later NCE) became a senior reporter on the Shropshire Star evening 'paper. Aged just 16 he did his first radio work, as a volunteer presenter at the Birmingham Hospital Broadcasting Network - one of the largest of such services in the UK - and then with Portsmouth Hospital Broadcasting. At 21 he gained a job as newscaster/reporter in the then large newsroom of Beacon Radio in the west midlands, presenting major news programmes and covering stories for the networked Independent Radio News (IRN). He then joined British Forces Broadcasting (BFBS) in Germany, working in both the TV and radio sectors. As well as numerous documentaries, outside broadcasts and hundreds of interviews, he initiated and was the first host for the 'Berlin Breakfast Show', which continued under his successors until British troops left the city in the mid-1990s. Back in the UK he held senior editorial, management and presentation posts in both BBC and commercial stations. He was nominated for a Sony Award.

He took a BA degree through the Open University and then an MA in Mass Communications by distance learning, receiving a Distinction for his dissertation. He later contributed a unit to this course. His first book (with Trevor Ibbotson) 'An Introduction to Journalism' (Focal Press), was well received and used as a set text on numerous courses and training bodies in the UK and elsewhere. His new book, 'Broadcasting in the 21st Century', was published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2011. Richard has had numerous scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals as well as several chapters in edited collections and was one of the main UK contributors to the three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio. He has won awards both for his training and his academic work. He has presented papers at major conferences in the UK and internationally, including the USA and New Zealand. One of his papers, at a Media History conference in Aberystwyth in 2009, was rated as "outstanding" in the official review of the conference in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. He is immediate past Chair of the International Division of the US-based Broadcast Education Association (BEA). He has been an external examiner for three undergraduate and one Master's course, an external verifier and has viva'd a PhD.

Richard has continued to make broadcasting appearances, including as a media commentator on numerous BBC Radio 4 programmes, as well as a regular guest on Rob Mcloughlin's weekly news review programme on City Talk in Liverpool. He worked alongside some of his then journalism students as the breakfast presenter for a Restricted Service Licence station, Liver FM, which was bidding for a full-time licence in Merseyside.

He has developed a number of multimedia learning materials to support his lecturing work, including podcasts, YouTube demonstration videos and has personal blog (http://rudinblog.typepad.com) and podcast (http://rudinpodcast.libsyn.com) sites, which have received well over 15,000 'hits', including a substantial number from outside the UK.

Richard is married, with a son - currently a university undergraduate - and lives in West Lancashire.

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