Mary Hockaday
Hockaday at the International Journalism Festival 2017
Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Assumed office
1 October 2022
Preceded byJeremy Morris
Controller of BBC World Service, English
In office
2014–2021
Preceded byRichard Porter
Succeeded byJon Zilkha
Personal details
Born
Anne Mary Hockaday

(1962-05-31) 31 May 1962
Oxford, England
EducationOxford High School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
New York University
Websitewww.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/contact-us/contact-directory/fellows-and-academics-directory/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 life

Hockaday 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.

Career

She 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

  1. 1 2 "Anne Mary HOCKADAY". London: Companies House.
  2. 1 2 "Mary Hockaday, Head of Multimedia Newsroom". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Mary Hockaday: Controller, BBC World Service English". bbc.co.uk.
  4. 1 2 "Mary Hockaday takes up post as Master". trinhall.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. 1 2 Holmwood, Leigh (16 April 2009). "BBC names Mary Hockaday head of TV, radio and online news". theguardian.com. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 "Trinity Hall Elects New Master". trinhall.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "People: Mary Hockaday". bl.uk.
  8. ↑ Mary Hockaday at Library of Congress


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