31 Facts About Tim Luckhurst

Timothy Colin Harvey Luckhurst was born on 8 January 1963 and is a British journalist and academic, currently principal of South College of Durham University and an associate pro-vice-chancellor.

Tim Luckhurst joined The Scotsman newspaper in 1997 as Assistant Editor and was promoted to the role of Deputy Editor in 1998, before briefly becoming the editor in 2000.

Tim Luckhurst was educated at Peebles High School in the Scottish Borders.

Tim Luckhurst studied history at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating in 1983.

Tim Luckhurst stood as the Labour candidate for the Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency at the 1987 general election.

Tim Luckhurst was critical of the party in 2001 and joined the Scottish Conservatives in 2005.

Tim Luckhurst is a member of the editorial board of the media outlet The Conversation UK.

Between 1987 and 1995, Tim Luckhurst worked for the BBC on Radio 4's Today and was a member of the editorial team that designed and launched BBC Radio 5 Live.

Tim Luckhurst covered the Romanian Revolution and the First Gulf War.

Tim Luckhurst was the BBC's Washington, DC producer during the first year of the Clinton presidency and reported on the Waco Siege for BBC Radio.

Tim Luckhurst joined The Scotsman as Assistant Editor in January 1997.

Tim Luckhurst became Deputy Editor in January 1998 and was appointed Acting Editor in January 2000.

Tim Luckhurst served as editor of The Scotsman between February and May 2000.

Tim Luckhurst was diagnosed with clinical depression and took medical leave.

In 2010, Tim Luckhurst wrote a chapter Compromising the First Draft for the book Afghanistan War and the Media.

Tim Luckhurst contributed a chapter to the book, The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial.

Tim Luckhurst has written for various publications including The Independent, The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Spectator, The Times, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and The Globe and Mail.

Tim Luckhurst has published in journals including Journalism Studies, Contemporary British History, 1914 -1918 Online: The International Encyclopedia of the First World War, British Journalism Review Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics and George Orwell Studies.

In May 2017 Tim Luckhurst gave the keynote lecture Inspiring critical and ethical journalism at the Orwell Society's annual conference.

Tim Luckhurst's work has been published in academic collections including Writing the First World War after 1918.

At Kent, Tim Luckhurst was a member of the team that launched KM Television, a local television station for Kent and Medway; he was a director of KM Television Ltd between 2016 and 2019.

In 2012, Luckhurst was interviewed by The New York Times about the BBC's changes to its journalistic standards and bureaucratic procedures.

Tim Luckhurst described it as a "poisonously anti-British corruption of the history of the war of Irish independence" and compared director Ken Loach to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Tim Luckhurst's role was to discuss Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis' criticism regarding fallout from Dominic Cummings' controversial trip to Barnard Castle during a COVID-19 lockdown.

Tim Luckhurst alleged Maitlis' criticism of both the government and BBC were "partisan" and they potentially breached impartiality of the BBC.

Tim Luckhurst summarised that he believed she should apologise and withdraw the comments.

In December 2021 Tim Luckhurst was the focus of controversy over a Christmas formal held at Durham University's South College, during which Tim Luckhurst's friend Rod Liddle was invited to speak.

Tim Luckhurst shouted at students who walked out before the speech, calling them "pathetic".

The university investigation concluded in January 2022 and Tim Luckhurst resumed all his duties as principal of the college and associate pro-vice-chancellor, but for confidentiality reasons the report was unpublished.

Tim Luckhurst claimed that "many of the BBC's young journalists appear to have nationalist sympathies", and called Bonnington "astute and brave [for identifying] a flaw that others have detected but chosen not to name".

In 1989, Tim Luckhurst married Dorothy Williamson, who stood as the Conservative Party candidate in Blaydon in the 2005 general election, having been on the Conservative A-List.