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Kurt Barling (born November 1961)[1] is a British professor of journalism at Middlesex University.[2][3] He previously worked as a journalist for the BBC for 25 years[4][5] and before that as a lecturer at the London School of Economics.[6] In 1997 he won the CRE's Reporter of the Year award.[6] He is also an author and has been an independent film producer.[7]

Biography

Kurt Barling was born in 1961, of mixed Anglo-Irish and African heritage, in north London,[8][9] where he attended comprehensive school.[3] He gained a BA (Hons) First Class degree in Politics & Modern Languages from City of London Polytechnic, before winning scholarships to do postgraduate work at the London School of Economics and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris),[7] earning an MSc in Government and a PhD in International Relations, and going on to lecture in LSE's International Relations Department.[10]

Barling was motivated to become a journalist after observing the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots at first hand.[11] In 1989 he joined the BBC, where over the following 25 years he worked on a wide range of prestigious news and current affairs programmes, on both television and radio, including Newsnight, Today, The Money Programme and Black Britain.[7] He covered many stories internationally and has made dozens of documentaries. From 1997 to 2000, he was a BBC News Correspondent, left briefly in 2000 before returning year as a freelancer with BBC London,[12] and from 2001 to 2014 was the Special Correspondent for BBC London News, writing a weekly online column for seven years known latterly as the blog "Barling's London".[13][14] Barling was one of the BBC's longest-serving ethnic minority journalists.[4] He has also worked as an independent film producer.[7]

Among numerous awards Barling has received for his journalism, film-making and writing, in 1997 he won the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) "Reporter of the Year" award, as well as several other industry awards.[2][6]

Since 2012 he has been teaching and researching in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University, becoming Professor of Journalism in November 2013.[2][15][16][17]

In 2016 Barling edited and wrote an introduction to the book Finsternis in Deutschland, a translation of E. Amy Buller’s Darkness over Germany, originally published in English in 1943 during World War II.[18] A copy of the book was presented to the Queen, who had met Buller in 1944 after the book's first publication.[18][19]

Awards

• 1995: Winner, Bradford & Bingley Personal Finance Awards (Money Check, BBC Radio 5 Live).
• 1996: Winner, Golden Pen Personal Finance Awards, (Money Box, BBC Radio 4).
• 1997: Winner, CRE, RIMA (Race in the Media Award), TV Reporter of the Year (BBC News).
• 1998: Winner, CRE, RIMA, TV Reporter of the Year (Black Britain). Commended, Radio Reporter of the Year (BBC News).
• 2001: Nominations for Sports Documentary of the Year: Royal Television Society RTS), EMMAs.
• 2002: Reporter of the Year Nominations: Royal Television Society (London), EMMAs.
• 2003: Winner, CRE, RIMA, TV Reporter of the Year (BBC London News).
• 2004: Nomination Reporter of the Year, Royal Television Society (London).
• 2005: Winner, CRE, RIMA, Best Film Documentary. Nomination, CRE, RIMA TV Reporter of the Year.
• 2006: Winner, RIMA, Television News. Finalist, One World Media Awards. Shortlisted, RTS London, Reporter of the Year.

Selected publications

• Barling, Kurt, & Reda Hassaine (2014), Abu Hamza Guilty: The fight against radical Islam, London: Redshank Books. ISBN 9780993000201
• Barling, Kurt (2015), The R word: Racism. Provocations. London: Biteback Publishing. ISBN 9781849549424
• Barling, K. (ed. and introduction), Buller, E. A., Finsternis in Deutschland (trans. from Darkness over Germany, 1934), Munchen: Sandmann Verlag, 2016

References

External links

• Amit Singh, "Kurt Barling Interview: 'The BBC Is The Medium Of The Elites'", Consented, 11 February 2015.

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