John swinfield biography

BIOGRAPHY

John Swinfield born 7th January is a British journalist, television producer and author. Born George John Swinfield in Clayton, Staffordshire, to George Harry and Lily Swinfield, he has worked in print and TV journalism, written books on maritime history and published two novels. He attended Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (now Ruskin University) and later studied an MA in Maritime History at the University of Greenwich, London.

John Swinfield served a three-year apprenticeship as a trainee reporter on a weekly paper, The Bedfordshire Times.

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In he joined the Fleet Street News Agency, followed by the London office of United Newspapers and later the Daily Mail. In he started at Anglia TV first as a sub-editor then as a reporter on its nightly show About Anglia. In he joined the BBC as an on-screen reporter with Nationwide (BBC1) and in The Money Programme (BBC2) as a reporter-presenter.

His one-hour films included a US trilogy: New York Debt City, analysing its fiscal plight; The Second Gold Rush, about oil in Alaska; and The Wildcatters, oil men in Texas and Oklahoma.

In he returned to Anglia to create business programming, producing and presenting the international documentary series Enterprise (ITV/C4) in the UK, Europe and US, profiling global capitalists including BA’s John King, GEC’s Arnold Weinstock, Charles Forte, David Rockefeller, Gloria Vanderbilt, Richard Branson, Norman Foster, Terence Conran and Robert Maxwell.

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He later produced and presented a series of half-hour documentaries about Catholic worker priests and dispossessed peoples across South and Central America and south-east Asia (ITV/C4). As the Anglia TV Executive Producer of Arts & features he created several series: Marquee and First Take, commissioning independent producers; The Second Revolution, UK science; and Five Lives, about terminally ill children (Anglia/ITV).

For four years he edited the painting magazine Artists & Illustrators and wrote the Breaking Through business column for the London Evening Standard. He was the founder-director of Radio Broadland (ILR), a commercial station in the east of England.

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AWARDS

John Swinfield has two Royal Television Society Awards ( & ). He is a former Radio and TV Industrial Journalist of the Year (Blue Circle/British Institute of Management, ). His documentary Weinstock of GEC won the Shell UK TV Award /85 in association with BAFTA. His film Beggars in Paradise (ITV) filmed in Peru won the Sandford St.

Martin Premier Award (). His MA dissertation in Maritime History won the Royal Marine Society and Sea Cadets post-graduate prize for outstanding achievement ().

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He was made a Life Member of the National Union of Journalists ().

PUBLICATIONS

Airship: design, development & disaster (Conway/Bloomsbury/US Naval Institute Press, ) Sea Devils: pioneer submariners (The History Press, ) Knock Down Ginger, a thriller (Peach Publishing, ) Legless in Polperro, a satire (Peach Publishing, ).

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