John_Exelby

John Exelby

John Exelby

British television executive (died 2019)

John Exelby (1940/1941 – November 15, 2019) was co-founder of BBC World Service TV News.[1]

Exelby studied for a politics degree at Durham University and became editor of Palatinate.[2] He also served as President of the Durham Union.[3] After leaving university he worked at The Northern Echo newspaper before joining BBC Television news where he was news editor, editor of most of the major news programmes and co-founder and managing editor of BBC World TV News. He was married to Judith Hann, a former presenter of Tomorrow's World for 20 years. Together, they ran a media company based in the Cotswolds.[1]

He died on 15 November 2019 at the age of 78.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Tutors' biographies". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Castellum" (PDF). Castle Alumni. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Remembering, John Exelby". Eastleach Village. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  4. [4]
    Exelby


Stub icon

This biographical article related to British television is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article John_Exelby, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.