Education
University of Manchester.
University of Manchester.
He is the editor of current affairs at Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) as of November 2011 and was appointed Director of Television in January 2009. Carson was born in Belfast and trained as a producer/director with the British Broadcasting Corporation on flagship current affairs programmes such as Newsnight and Panorama before setting up his Mint Productions company in 2000. He continues to direct documentaries alongside his overseeal of Mint"s output.
RTÉ
On 30 January 2009, Carson was named by RTÉ as its new Director of Television.
In 2011, he was made RTÉ"s editor of current affairs following RTÉ"s defamation of French Kevin Reynolds in "Mission to Prey".