Staff Profiles
Richard Parsons is News Associates / Sportsbeat’s Course Director. A former Editor of the Buckinghamshire Advertiser, the Uxbridge Gazette series and later Editor in Chief of the Surrey Herald, Informer and Leader series. He has also worked in Fleet Street on PA News, the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Express.
Richard has played a key role on the NCTJ working parties that developed new qualifications in sub-editing and sports journalism. In addition, he is one of three NCTJ news writing examination moderators, responsible for marking at all centres across the UK.
Allyson Purcell-Davis BA MA. A former broadcast journalist with the BBC and independent radio, Allyson has been teaching multimedia journalism for over seven years. She will be training our students in radio production, web design and all aspects of online journalism.
Andy Moorhouse is the Head of Journalism Training (London) after switching from his role as News Associates / Sportsbeat’s chief sub-editor, where he is responsible for quality control of all news output to clients. He has also worked as a senior reporter and news editor.
Michael Kaye BA MA has extensive experience as a practitioner in film, television, radio. His many jobs include Head of English Language TV for Radio Television Hong Kong and as a radio journalist, producer and editor in news and current affairs at BBC World Service.
Michael was founding editor of BBC Europe; assistant head of the French service and head of the German service. He is co-author of Making Radio (1995). He will be teaching our students radio production.
James Toney is the Managing Editor at News Associates/News Associates / Sportsbeat. An award-winning journalist and regular contributor to TV and radio, he has been highly commended for his journalism by Sport England and the Sports Journalists Association.
He is regularly shortlisted in the Sports Journalist of the Year category (the industry 'Oscars'), organised by trade magazine Press Gazette. James was integral to development of the NCTJ's new Sports Journalism qualification, launched in September 2007.
Hilary Kingsley and Tom Oldfield teach media law. Hilary has been a staff journalist on a variety of national newspapers and magazines, working as feature writer and TV critic. Her interest in media law is backed up by her work as a magistrate and as an in-house lawyer for Associated Newspapers.
Tom is a graduate of News Associates / Sportsbeat’s own pre-entry journalism course, where he excelled in all subjects. He also teaches newspaper practice and shorthand.
Angela Catto teaches shorthand. A lecturer with 20 years’ experience and an impressive success rate of getting aspiring journalists to pass their critical 100-word per minute exam. Angela sits as a member of the NCTJ's shorthand council, where she plays an active role in developing the subject across all their training centres in the UK.
Daragh Minogue BA PgDip PhD has taught Modern Irish History and Politics at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics, Portsmouth University, Kingston University and St Mary’s University College, where he has been running courses since 2001.
He studied Politics and and International Relations before specialising in Irish Politics. He completed his PhD in 2000, which investigated the changing political influence of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland in the 1990s.
Dr Minogue currently teaches courses on the Irish Studies and Media Arts programmes. These include Media and Popular Culture in Ireland; Telling the Troubles; Media, War and Conflict; Studying the Media; and Media Thinkers. He will also be teaching Public Affairs on the new MA in Sports Journalism.
Barry Ingle BA MA is an experienced senior lecturer in video production and digital media. He will be teaching our students how to make documentaries and news features for broadcasting.
