# List of media and film people associated with Balliol College, Oxford

This is a list of media and film people associated with Balliol College, Oxford.

## Newspaper editors

| Name | Join date | Publication | Comments | Refs |
| Stephen Bush | 2008 | The Financial Times | political journalist, associate editor and columnist | |
| Martin Kettle | 1967 | The Guardian | Assistant Editor and columnistMarxist, as were both parents | $^{:297}$ |
| Sir Richard Lambert | 1963 | The Financial Times | Editor FT director-general of the CBI chancellor of the University of Warwick chairman of the board of the British Museum member, Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England | $^{:385}$ |
| Andrew Knight | 1958 | The EconomistDaily Telegraph | Director of News Corporation Director of BSkyB Chairman of J. Rothschild Capital Management | $^{:327}$ |
| Geoffrey Cannon | 1958 | Radio TimesSunday Times assistant editorWorld food and nutrition policy | Rock Journalist"Dieting Makes you Fat" 1982 "The Food Scandal" 1984 "The Politics of Food" 1987 "Superbug" 1995"Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" WCRF 1997 | $^{:323}$ |
| Baron William Rees-Mogg | 1945 | The Times | member of the BBC's Board of Governors chairman of the Arts Council | $^{:185}$ |
| David Astor | 1931 | DNGThe Observer | Companion of HonourSupported left wing causes - Amnesty International and the African National CongressBuried alongside George Orwell | $^{:73}$ |
| Henry Vincent Hodson | 1925 | The Sunday Times | Fellow of All SoulsDirector, Empire Division, Ministry of Information WW2Reforms Commissioner, Government of IndiaHead of Non-Munitions, at the Ministry of Productionwrote leader advocating legalisation of homosexuality | $^{:40}$ |

## Political journalists

| Name | Join date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Jonathan Sacerdoti | 1998 | broadcaster, journalist, and TV producer | campaigner against antisemitism | $^{:473}$ |
| Gary Gibbon | 1984 | Channel 4 | political editor of Channel 4 News | $^{:190}$ |
| George Stephanopoulos | 1984 | White House communications director under Bill Clinton | Rhodes ScholarCo-anchor of Good Morning AmericaMemoir "All Too Human: A Political Education" 1999 | $^{:516}$ |
| Robert Peston | 1979 | ITV Political editor | BBC then ITV | $^{:426}$ |
| Seumas Milne | 1976 | Spin doctor | Political advisor to Jeremy Corbyn | $^{:376}$ |
| E. J. Dionne | 1973 | op-ed columnist Washington Post | Rhodes ScholarFellow, Brookings Institution | $^{:516}$ |
| David Aaronovitch | 1972 | DNGcolumnistPresident, National Union of Students | EurocommunistTV producer, radio presenter, Orwell Prize winner | $^{:1}$ |
| Charles Krauthammer | 1970 | Psychiatrist Director of psychiatric research under President CarterUS Conservative columnist | Pulitzer Prize winnerchess addict | $^{:307}$ |
| Christopher Hitchens | 1967 | AtlanticVanity Fair | new atheistarticulate speaker on numerous TV shows criticising religionWrote book and documentary criticising Mother Teresa | $^{:245}$ |
| Peter Snow | 1958 | Current affairs TV presenter | General Election TV analyst | $^{:307}$ |
| Hugo Young | 1958 | The Guardian | Harkness FellowInside Politics colummn | $^{:603}$ |
| Peter Usborne | 1958 | Private Eye co-founder | founder Usborne publishers | $^{:554}$ |

## Radio, television and film

| Name | Join date | Field of work | Productions | Refs |
| Chadwick Boseman | 1998 | Summer school Superhero actor (US) | Black Panther | |
| Charlotte Higgins | 1990 | Culture and arts | chief culture writer, The Guardian author on Classical history | $^{:241}$ |
| Aidan Hartley | 1984 | Documentary maker | Unreported World, Dispatches for C4Kenyan wildlife conservationist and cattle farmer"Wildlife" column on The Spectator | $^{:229}$ |
| Vanessa Engle | 1981 | Documentary maker | Lefties | $^{:155}$ |
| Michael Winterbottom | 1979 | Film Director | 24 Hour Party People In This World | $^{:591}$ |
| Bill Heine | 1967 | Radio Oxford broadcaster | Refounded the Penultimate Picture Palace 1976. Commissioned the Headington Shark on his property. | $^{:236}$ |
| John Schlesinger | 1947 | Film director | Midnight Cowboy (1969). Won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and The Next Best Thing (1999) | $^{:480}$ |
| Roger Mayne | 1947 | Photographer | Southam Street | $^{:365}$ |
| Anthony Asquith | 1921 | Film Director | Son of prime ministerThe Winslow Boy (1948), The Browning Version (1951), Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945) and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) | $^{:225}$ |
| Maurice Gorham | 1919 | Controller of BBC TV | Editor, Radio TimesDirector of Radio Éireann | $^{:209}$ |
| Raymond Massey | 1919 | Hollywood actor | Seven Angry Men | $^{:211}$ |

## Other

* Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker. Daughter of Robert Maxwell, owner of Mirror Newspapers and Pergamon Press.