List of alumni of the University of St Andrews
Journalism and media
Table:
Name

Year/degree

Notability

Reference

B. C. Forbes

1897

Financial journalist, author, founded Forbes magazine

Louise Minchin

Journalist and television presenter who works mainly for the BBC

Tim Samuels

Documentary filmmaker and broadcaster

John Suchet

M.A.

Journalist, television presenter for ITN and radio presenter of Classic FM

Brian Taylor

1977 M.A.

Journalist and the political editor for BBC Scotland

Craig Oliver

M.A.

News editor, producer, media executive; director of communications for the former British prime minister David Cameron; former controller of English news output for BBC Global News

Judith Bumpus

1961 M.A.

Radio producer for the BBC specialising in coverage of the arts, particularly the work of visual artists

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Robbie Collin

M.A.

Writer and film critic for the Daily Telegraph

Jolyon Connell

M.A.

Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times journalist, founded The Week

Margaret MacPherson

1914

Journalist, editor and writer

Chris Morgan

1976 M.Theol.

Journalist, BBC television and radio

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Bertie Charles Forbes ( /fɔːrbz/ ; May 14 , 1880 - May 6 , 1954 ) was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine .
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Louise Mary Minchin ( née Grayson ) ( born 8 September 1968 ) is a British journalist and news presenter who currently works freelance within the BBC . Since 2006 , Minchin has been a regular anchor on the BBC One programme Breakfast , currently co-hosting the show three days a week with Dan Walker . From 2009 until 2012 , Minchin co-hosted Real Rescues alongside Nick Knowles and Chris Hollins . She has guest-hosted The One Show a number of times since 2010 .
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Timothy David Samuels ( born 3 October 1975 ) is an English documentary filmmaker , author and broadcaster . His work is characterised by approaching serious topics in provocative and entertaining ways to produce hard-hitting documentaries . Samuels formed older people 's rock group The Zimmers for a BBC documentary and is a regular presenter on BBC television and radio in the UK . He has been referred to as a younger British Michael Moore , but without the political agenda . Samuels has won three Royal Television Society awards and best documentary at the World Television Festival in Banff .
John Suchet ( /ˈsuːʃeɪ/ SOO-shay ; born 29 March 1944 ) is an English author , newsreader , television presenter and musical host on Classic FM ( UK ) . Suchet has two brothers , one of whom is the actor David Suchet . He is father of broadcast journalist Rory Suchet [ deprecated source ] and uncle to actor Nick Hendrix and broadcast journalist Richard Suchet .
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Brian Taylor ( born 9 January 1955 in Dundee ) is the political editor for BBC Scotland . Taylor - who joined the BBC in 1985 - originally co-presented Left , Right and Centre and was political correspondent prior to his current role . Taylor has covered politics on television since the 1979 United Kingdom general election . In 2009 , he presented Holyrood and the Search for Scotland 's Soul , a documentary by BBC Scotland Investigates to mark the 10th anniversary of the devolved Scottish Parliament .
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Sir Craig Stewart Oliver ( born 15 May 1969 ) is a British news editor , producer and media executive , and the former Director of Politics and Communications for British prime minister David Cameron . Previously , he was Controller of English news output for BBC Global News , responsible for commissioning the news content for the corporation 's English-language global services , including the BBC World Service , BBC World News and BBC News Online .
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Judith Harriet Bumpus ( née Collison , born 3 November 1939 - 2 March 2010 ) She was a radio producer for the BBC , specialising in coverage of the arts , particularly the work of visual artists . Born in Wiltshire , Collinson was educated at the University of St Andrews , where she read German and Spanish , and universities in Spain , Bumpus joined the BBC in 1968 . For nearly thirty years , she worked on numerous documentaries , mainly broadcast on Radio 3 , and produced the long running Conversations with Artists series of interviews conducted by the poet and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith . Judith Collinson married the historian of ceramics Bernard Bumpus ( 1921-2004 ) in 1966 ; the couple had two daughters .
Robbie Collin is a British film critic . Collin studied aesthetics and the philosophy of film at the University of St Andrews , Scotland . He edited the university 's student newspaper , The Saint . Collin has been the chief film critic at The Daily Telegraph since 2011 . From 2007 to 2011 he wrote a weekly film column for the News of the World until the newspaper 's closure . That year he was shortlisted for Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards , and was shortlisted again in 2017 , when he was highly commended by the jury . He appeared on the Channel 4 Vue Film Show , presented by Edith Bowman , and contributed to the BBC Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman . In August 2013 he guest presented BBC Radio 4 's Film programme . He guest-presents Kermode and Mayo 's Film Review , also with Edith Bowman , Sanjeev Bhaskar and Ben Bailey Smith . In 2018 Collin compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time for the Telegraph , with Singin ' in the Rain at the top .
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Jolyon Connell is a former Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times journalist who left Fleet Street to found The Week in 1995 , the news digest magazine which was ultimately purchased by his mentor and guide , the late publisher and poet Felix Dennis . Connell 's other business interests include MoneyWeek , a British financial magazine which he founded in 2000 . In 2010 he founded Connell guides , a publishing company specialising in guide books for GCSE and A Level Literature students . Connell has a first class degree in English from the University of St Andrews and an honorary doctorate from the same university .
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Christopher Morgan ( 29 July 1952 - 30 May 2008 ) was a Welsh journalist . Morgan was born in Cardiff and educated at Cardiff High School , and the United World College of the Atlantic in the Vale of Glamorgan . He graduated in 1976 in theology from the University of St Andrews , Scotland . Morgan began his media career in broadcasting in 1977 in the BBC 's religious department . Morgan trained as a journalist from 1978 at BBC Wales , reporting for both BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 4 , and latterly BBC1 . Morgan worked for BBC Wales television , where during the early 1980s he became one of the main presenters on the evening news programme Wales Today . After leaving BBC Wales , Morgan moved to London in 1990 to work as a reporter for Thames News and TV-am . Between 1990 and 1997 , he presented Sunday for Radio 4 , and became religious affairs correspondent for The Sunday Times in 1997 . A committed Anglo-Catholic , Morgan was best man at the wedding of Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Canterbury in 1981 . Having suffered from a long period of clinical depression , Morgan killed himself at Kings Langley railway station in Hertfordshire on Friday 30 May 2008 . His body was found by British Transport Police , and he was pronounced dead at the scene after an incident involving a Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston train .
Master of Theology ( Latin : Theologiae Magister , abbreviated ThM , MTh , or MTheol ) is a graduate degree offered by universities , divinity schools , and seminaries . It can serve as a transition degree for entrance into a PhD program or as a stand-alone terminal degree depending on ones particular educational background and institution of study . In North America , the ThM typically requires at least 2-3 years of graduate study for entrance into the program .