Education
Worthington was educated at Stubbington House School, a former boys" junior independent school in Ascot in Berkshire, which had relocated from the village of Stubbington in Hampshire, followed by Bradfield College, a senior boarding independent school in the village of Bradfield (near Reading), also in Berkshire, which he left in 1995. He then went up to Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor Honours degree in English Language and Literature. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University London.
Career
He regularly appears on Channel NewsAsia as an expert panelist on Views on the News. Worthington was formerly a Correspondent with British Broadcasting Corporation News, where he spent 10 years reporting for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s network news programmes on television and radio. In 2011, Worthington reported for the British Broadcasting Corporation on the clearance of the illegal traveller site at Dale Farm in Essex and the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
He has worked as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Midlands Correspondent and as a reporter for British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland, where he was nominated for the international Concentra Award for outstanding video journalism.
Mark Worthington has also worked as a news producer for the Japanese network Tokyo Broadcasting System, and was mentioned during the Hutton Inquiry as one of the journalists in contact with the government scientist Doctor David Kelly (weapons expert).
