Martin Bright
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Martin Bright has worked for over 30 years in journalism on national newspapers and magazines. He was Home Affairs Editor of the Observer and Political Editor of the New Statesman and the Jewish Chronicle. In 2009 he set up the youth employment charity, Creative Society. He is currently Editor-at-Large at the free-expression magazine Index on Censorship. He has also worked in politics, academia, film, radio and TV. Official Secrets, a major film about the challenge to democracy in the build-up to Iraq War, based on a story he broke for the Observer in 2003, was released in 2019 starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith.
Qualifications
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BA Hons English Literature University of Cambridge, (1987)
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MA History of Asia and Africa School of Oriental and African Studies, (1996)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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The Journalistic Imagination: Contemporary Issues in Journalism (LT138)
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Feature Writing and Magazine Journalism (LT232)
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Feature Writing and Magazine Journalism (LT241)
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Multimedia Project (LT314)
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Investigative Journalism (LT317)
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Dissertation Preparation: Postgraduate Research and Writing Skills (LT901)
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Open Source Journalism (LT993)
