John Mair (journalist)
John Mair is an associate senior lecturer in broadcast journalism at the Coventry University Department of Media and Communication. Mair is a former BBC current affairs producer who has also worked for Channel Four and ITV. He helped devise "Question Time" and "Watchdog" at the BBC . Academic background. He has taught at Coventry University since 2005 where he devised the university's best known brand, The Coventry Conversations. He has published five books on journalism and frequently appears in print and broadcast talking about the media. Mair's books include "Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab  Revolutions", which focuses on coverage of the 2010 Arab Spring, and "Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive". Coventry Conversations. Mair has invited household names such as Jon Snow, Kirsty Wark, Jeremy Vine, BBC Director General Mark Thompson, Trevor Philips and Baroness Amos to take part in Coventry Conversations and address students at the university. The "Conversations" were lauded as "the best speaker programme in any British University" by Mair's regular co-author, Professor Richard Keeble of the University of Lincoln. Mair, who has more than two hundred broadcast credits to his name, has worked as a producer or director on  every BBC general election programme since 1979 as well as covering several world leader summits. Media advisor. Having been born in the Caribbean, Mair introduced a professional regime at the region's state broadcaster. He has also had the distinction of being a media advisor to three presidents of Guyana: Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan and Bharrat Jagdeo. On 4 October 2011, Mair was scheduled to give expert evidence to the House of Lords' Communications Committee on the state of investigative journalism. Works. Editor (with Richard Keeble) in the production of:-