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The doctors blues john mair
John Mair is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism at the Coventry University Department of Media and Communication.
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- The doctors blues john mair
- Academic background
- Coventry Conversations
- Media advisor
- Achievements
- References
Mair is a former BBC current affairs producer who has also worked for Channel Four and ITV. He helped invent Question Time and Watchdog at the BBC.
Academic background
He has taught at Coventry University since 2005 where he invented the university's best known brand, The Coventry Conversations. He has published five books on journalism and frequently appears in print and broadcast talking about the media.
Mair's latest two books are Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Revolutions, which focuses on coverage of the 2010 Arab Spring, and Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive.
Coventry Conversations
Mair has invited household names such as Jon Snow, Kirsty Wark, Jeremy Vine, BBC Director General Mark Thompson, Trevor Philips and Baroness Amos to take part in Coventry Conversations and address students at the university. The 'Conversations' were lauded as "the best speaker programme in any British University" by Mair's regular co-author, Professor Richard Keeble of Lincoln University.
Mair, who has more than two hundred broadcast credits to his name, has worked as a producer or director on every BBC General Election programme since 1979 alongside covering several World Leader summits.
Media advisor
Having been born in the Caribbean, Mair introduced a professional regime at the region's state broadcaster. He has also had the distinction of being a media advisor to three presidents of Guyana: Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan and Bharrat Jagdeo.
On 4 October 2011 Mair was scheduled to give expert evident to the Lords' Communications Committee on the state of Investigative Journalism.