Category: News
Date: 04.10.2005
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has appointed Vin Ray as its first Director of its newly established College of Journalism.
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Vin Ray, currently Deputy Head of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Newsgathering team, joined the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ in 1987 as a sub-editor for Ceefax.
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He later moved on to the Nine O'clock News as assistant producer, before his appointment as Foreign Assignments Editor in 1994.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s College of Journalism was launched following recommendations from the Ronald Neil Report to develop a far-reaching training programme for the organisation's journalism.
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The programme plans - announced by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Deputy Director-General Mark Byford in June 2005 - included a doubling of investment in journalism training, together with the development of the virtual College of Journalism, to provide interactive learning modules, workshops and seminars.
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Vin Ray said: "It's a fantastic honour and a huge challenge to help ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ journalists navigate their way through a period of such huge change in the industry.
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"I'm passionate about making the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s journalism as good as it can be, and promoting the highest ethical and editorial standards, and developing the craft skills of all our journalists."
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Mark Byford said: "Vin has a distinguished track record in broadcast journalism and a demonstrable commitment to high quality training and people development.
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"He will drive forward the establishing of the college and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s commitment to significantly increasing its investment in learning at all levels."
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Vin Ray will be a member of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Journalism Board.
