Patrick Howse - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

An experienced mother-tongue English journalist based in Munich, currently writing and editing for dpa and the Max Planck Institute, and contributing to publications in the UK and Ireland. Three decades experience as a news journalist, including 25 years with the BBC, leading news gathering teams in war zones and other challenging environments, including, between 2004-2009 as bureau chief in Baghdad. Finished BBC career as online Education reporter, and then spent four years instructing journalists from the BBC, ITV News, and CNN to prepare them for working in war zones and areas affected by natural disasters. Also a published poet. Holds joint Irish/UK citizenship.

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Total articles 20

• 'BBC Hopes to Remind Viewers of its Tradition of Authoritative Journalism By Having Clive Myrie Join Laura Kuenssberg for its Election Night Coverage'

  By Patrick Howse| Byline Times Verified Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive editorial emails from the Byline Times Team. The BBC’s announcement of its team that will be hosting its election night coverage predictably ticks many boxes. Well-known faces will be dispatched to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with Jeremy Vine doing his graphic sequences from Cardiff, Kirsty Wark in Edinburgh, and Andrea Catherwood providing updates from Belfast. So far, so normal, from a BBC very keen to show that it gets about the UK.

  By Patrick Howse · Byline Times

  May. 29, 2024

• ‘The BBC’s Pursuit of Bogus ‘Impartiality’ Finally Crashes and Burns’ – Byline Times

  By Patrick Howse| Byline Times Verified After years of appeasing its enemies, former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse believes the BBC’s destruction from within has been spectacularly exposedShareEmailTwitterFacebookIt may seem like the BBC took on Gary Lineker this week, but what it has actually been engaged in is a brawl with itself over a twisted version of what it likes to call ‘impartiality’.

  By Patrick Howse · Byline Times

  Mar. 12, 2023

• ‘The Sharp End of the Stick: Latest BBC Scandal Shows how Hard it will be for the Corporation to Recover’ – Byline Times

  By Patrick Howse| Byline Times Verified To survive, the broadcaster’s governance needs to be completely overhauled, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick HowseShareEmailTwitterFacebookIt must be obvious to even the most on-message BBC manager that 2023 has not started well for the corporation. In fact, it’s been a disaster, the progress of which can be charted by looking at its reaction to three stories that have emerged over the past few weekends.

  By Patrick Howse · Byline Times

  Jan. 23, 2023

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