About

Laurie Upshon spent 35 years in mainstream journalism before setting up Upshon Media Limited in 2005. Most of his career was in television where he was Controller of News and Operations for ITV Central and a Director of Central Independent Television plc. He is a fellow of the Royal Television Society and in October 2005 was awarded the Society's top accolade, the annual Baird Medal, for an outstanding contribution to broadcasting. (Recent previous recipients have included Chris Tarrant, Jasper Carrott, Bob Monkhouse and Lenny Henry.)

He has won further national and international awards for news coverage and for the introduction of new technology. He was a founder member of the ITV Heads of News group which he chaired for eight years.

He lectures regularly on news issues at several universities and is a visiting examiner on the Broadcast Journalism post graduate course at University College, Falmouth.

He started his career in regional papers before moving to Fleet Street and was a former board member of the Association of British Editors and immediate past chairman of the Royal Television Society's Midland Centre.