- Mark McFadden
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Winner of a world journalism award, Mark McFadden is an Irish television news broadcaster.
He is currently the North West correspondent for UTV Live, the flagship early evening news programme on the ITV regional company UTV.
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Early life
Mark was born in Derry in 1965. He is a former pupil of St. Columb's College - a school that has two Nobel prize-winners among its alumni. After St. Columb's he studied French and English at Queen's University, Belfast.
Journalism career
His career in journalism began in 1988 with the Derry Journal, the second oldest English-language newspaper in the world.
During six years at the Journal he worked in news, features and sports. He also contributed reports to London broadsheet newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
Broadcasting career
In April 1994 Mark joined the UTV Live team becoming the face of UTV in the North West of Ireland. He works mainly on hard news reports - covering politics, serious crime, the economy, etc. However, he also produces a wide range of material for the sports and features departments.
Mark was UTV's correspondent throughout the entire course of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. This Tribunal of Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, sat at the Guildhall in Derry and at Methodist Central Hall in London. It was the longest and most expensive Inquiry in UK legal history. Mark was the only television journalist to cover the Bloody Sunday Inquiry from its inception in 1998 to its conclusion in June 2010 when Lord Saville's final report was published. [1]
He is primarily based in UTV's new studio in Derry.
World Awards
Mark has won a number of prestigious journalism awards at regional, national and international levels. In April 2011, he won two prizes at the New York International TV & Film Awards. He picked up the World Gold Medal for journalism in honour of his coverage of Lord Saville's inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings, and he scooped the World Silver Medal for his 2010 UTV documentary 'Insight: Bloody Justice' which examined Bloody Sunday and the Saville Inquiry.
'Bloody Justice' was also winner of the News & Current Affairs Programme of the Year prize at the 2011 Institute of Public Relations media awards. The Chairman of the Judges said: “I thought I knew all about Bloody Sunday until I watched 'Bloody Justice'. The sequence re-enacting the individual killings was gripping, evocative and startling. Each part of the current affairs machine purred powerfully through this splendid offering."
Organisers of the New York International TV & Film Awards have invited Mark to be a member of the jury for the 2011-'12 awards.
References
Categories:- Journalists from Northern Ireland
- UTV
- Living people
- People educated at St Columb's College
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