Biographies

Head of the BBC Multimedia Newsroom

Mary Hockaday took up her role as Head of the BBC Multimedia Newsroom in April 2009.

Mary had been Deputy Head of the BBC Newsroom since 2007 and was central to the creation and leadership of the Multimedia Newsroom. As well as deputising overall, she lead the On-Demand, Radio and Mediawire teams.

Before that, she was deputy Head of BBC Radio News which includes Today, World At One, PM, World Tonight and BBC Radio 5 Live.

From 2001 to 2006 Mary was the Editor of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs running the whole of the daily and weekly news and current affairs output for World Service, through 9/11, Afghanistan and the Invasion of Iraq.

Under her leadership, World Service News and Current Affairs won a Special Sony Gold award in recognition of its 9/11 coverage and its global reputation.

Mary began her BBC career in 1986 as a World Service Production Trainee.

She was a correspondent for the BBC and The Independent in Prague in the early Nineties and has worked as a reporter, producer and editor on a whole range of World Service news output. She has also been the editor of the World Today.

Mary studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and took an MA in Journalism at New York University as a Fulbright Scholar.