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Mary Hockaday
Anne Mary Hockaday (born 31 May 1962)[1] is a British journalist and academic administrator. Since October 2022, she has been Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She was previously head of the BBC Multimedia Newsroom,[2] and controller of BBC World Service English.[3] Early lifeHockaday was born in Oxford, attending Oxford High School, an all-girls private school. She studied English at the University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[4] Then, as a Fulbright Scholar, she studied journalism (MA) at New York University. CareerShe joined the BBC as a World Service production trainee in 1986.[5] She worked as a correspondent in Prague in the early 1990s and as a reporter, editor, producer for World Service news output. She was also the editor of The World Today. She was the editor of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs (2001–2006),[6] managing daily and weekly news and current affairs output for 9/11, Afghanistan and the Invasion of Iraq. Her department won a special Sony Gold award for its 9/11 coverage.[2] In 2007, she became deputy head of the BBC Newsroom, leading the On-Demand, Radio and Mediawire teams.[5] In April 2009, she became Head of the Multimedia Newsroom. In October 2014 she was appointed controller of BBC World Service English. She left the BBC in 2021.[6] On 31 May 2022, it was announced that she was to become the next Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in succession to Jeremy Morris.[6] She took up the post on 1 October 2022.[4] She serves as director of the Girls' Day School Trust a group of 25 private schools in the UK[1] and a trustee of the British Library.[7] Hockaday is the author of a biography of Milena Jesenská, a Czech journalist and muse of Franz Kafka.[8] References
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