Mark Webster (journalist)
| Mark Webster | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 November 1953 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
| Residence | London |
| Education | The King's School, Worcester |
| Occupation | Journalist, correspondent, media advisor |
| Employer | ITN (1982–2004) |
| Known for | Fmr. ITN Moscow Correspondent Fmr. ITN Business Editor Fmr. ITN Political Correspondent Journalist and media consultant |
Mark Webster (born 1953) is an English journalist of over thirty years' standing. He is a former correspondent for Independent Television News, having worked for the company for over twenty years. He was its Industrial Correspondent, Northern Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Business Correspondent, Business Editor, Moscow Correspondent, Ireland Correspondent and a presenter of the ITV Morning News. He was also news correspondent for five news, at the time produced by Sky News for Channel five television.
Webster was born on 21 November 1953 in Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Webster was educated at the King's School, a boarding independent school for boys (now a co-educational day school) in the county town of Worcester in Worcestershire, between the years 1962-1972, where he was a day pupil at Wulstan House.
After leaving school, Webster joined the Gloucestershire Echo newspaper. After a year on the paper, he moved to Paris where he worked as a freelance broadcaster and journalist. On his return to London, he joined the London Evening Standard as a leader writer. In 1977, he joined the Financial Times and became its Africa Correspondent, and then its Industrial Correspondent.
In September 1982, Webster joined Independent Television News as a scriptwriter for ITN's Channel 4 News, and in 1983 became ITN Industrial Correspondent for ITN programmes on ITV. He reported extensively on the year-long miners' strike, the arrest of Arthur Scargill and the miners' subsequent return to work. In September 1987, he was appointed ITN's Northern Correspondent.
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