Education
Adrian Monck graduated from, Oxford in 1988 with an honours degree in Modern History. At Oxford he was JCR President and edited Cherwell. In 2000 he was awarded an Master of Business Administration from London Business School.
Adrian Monck graduated from, Oxford in 1988 with an honours degree in Modern History. At Oxford he was JCR President and edited Cherwell. In 2000 he was awarded an Master of Business Administration from London Business School.
Monck went on to be a television journalist with Columbia Broadcasting System News (1988-1992), Independent Television News (1992–1996), five news (1996–2004) and Sky News (2005). He launched and was Deputy and Managing Editor of ITN"s service for Britain"s fifth terrestrial network, Channel 5. Before becoming managing director and Head of Communications at the World Economic Forum Adrian Monck headed City University"s Department of Journalism from 2005 – 2009.
He has attacked trust in the media.
He is an advocate of extending United Kingdom television regulation of journalism to newspapers and online media but is critical of public funding for journalism. In 2006 he presented a lecture entitled Why the Public Doesn"t Deserve the News.
He is quoted in Bad News From Israel, by Greg Philo (of the Glasgow Media Group), Howard Tumber and Frank Webster"s Journalists Under Fire: Information War and Journalistic Practices and Richard Lindley"s And Finally..The History of ITN.