Martin Jackson, a founder member of the BPG and twice the Guild’s chairman, died on 28 December after a long illness. He went into hospital following a fall and was taken into intensive care on Christmas Eve. He was 75. [Read more...]
Martin Jackson 1934-2009
BPG Annual General Meeting, June 13, 2006
June 14, 2006 By Richard Last
At a well-attended AGM held at the Harrow on 13 June Conor Dignam, editor of Broadcast, was elected to be the new chairman of the Broadcasting Press Guild.
He succeeds Kate Bulkley, whose two-year term in the chair has been marked by a number of major innovations, including the introduction of video clips at the 2006 Awards lunch and the setting up of the BPG website. [Read more...]
Keith Samuel 1939 – 2006
January 31, 2006 By Richard Last
One of the BBC’s longest serving publicity officers, Keith Samuel, has died at the age of 66.
As head of BBC Television Press and Publicity for 13 years until his retirement in 1998, Keith was well known to a generation of BPG members. On his retirement, after promotion to Controller in charge of BBC publicity departments for TV, radio, regions and the new digital channels, the Guild organised a dinner in his honour – an accolade never offered to any other publicity chief. [Read more...]
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