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Gyngell studied a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University and an M.Phil in sociology at Oxford. <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref> She subsequent worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Television Research at Leeds University <ref>Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/124_ProductPreviewFile.pdf Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality]’, 16 September 2004; p.2</ref> where she worked under the US born media academic [[Jay Blumler]]. <ref>A 1984 article by Blumler in ''Parliamentary Affairs'' credits Kathryn Rowan and with carrying out the research for the article - Jay G. Blumler, (1984) 'The Sound of Parliament', ''Parliamentary Affairs''37(1) 250-266</ref>
 
Gyngell studied a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University and an M.Phil in sociology at Oxford. <ref>[[Media:Kathy Gyngell Newswatch Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009</ref> She subsequent worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Television Research at Leeds University <ref>Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/124_ProductPreviewFile.pdf Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality]’, 16 September 2004; p.2</ref> where she worked under the US born media academic [[Jay Blumler]]. <ref>A 1984 article by Blumler in ''Parliamentary Affairs'' credits Kathryn Rowan and with carrying out the research for the article - Jay G. Blumler, (1984) 'The Sound of Parliament', ''Parliamentary Affairs''37(1) 250-266</ref>
  
Gyngell later worked at the Features and Current Affairs Department at [[LWT]] before being appointed a Features Editor at [[TV-am]]. <ref>Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/124_ProductPreviewFile.pdf Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality]’, 16 September 2004; p.2</ref> In 1986 she married TV-am's managing director [[Bruce Gyngell]]. <ref>'The man who began to get younger at 46', ''Daily Mail'', 25 August 1987</ref> After the birth of their second child in the late 1980s, Gyngell left her job at [[TV-am]] to work as a full time mother. She later co-founded the Full Time Mothers Association, to raise consciousness about motherhood as 'a skilled job for intelligent women'. <ref>Ros Coward, 'Women at war', ''Guardian'', 22 March 1993; 'Working parents: how best to meet the children's needs', ''The Times'', 7 February 1997; p.19</ref>
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Gyngell later worked at the Features and Current Affairs Department at [[LWT]] before being appointed a Features Editor at [[TV-am]]. <ref>Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘[http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/CPS_assets/124_ProductPreviewFile.pdf Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality]’, 16 September 2004; p.2</ref> In 1986 she married TV-am's managing director [[Bruce Gyngell]]. <ref>'The man who began to get younger at 46', ''Daily Mail'', 25 August 1987</ref> After the birth of their second child in the late 1980s, Gyngell left her job at [[TV-am]] to work as a full time mother. She spent several years in Australia and on her return to London co-founded the Full Time Mothers Association, to raise consciousness about motherhood as 'a skilled job for intelligent women'. <ref>Ros Coward, 'Women at war', ''Guardian'', 22 March 1993; 'Working parents: how best to meet the children's needs', ''The Times'', 7 February 1997; p.19</ref>
  
 
During the 1990s Gyngell wrote several letters to ''The Times'', mainly relating to parenting and 'family values'. In November 1999 she wrote a letter referring to media attacks on [[Jeffrey Archer]] and [[Michael Ancram]] and complaining that, 'sleaze seems to be real sleaze only if it can be stuck to the Conservative Party.' <ref>'Press and party as arbiters of morality in politics', ''The Times'', 27 November 1999; p.23</ref>
 
During the 1990s Gyngell wrote several letters to ''The Times'', mainly relating to parenting and 'family values'. In November 1999 she wrote a letter referring to media attacks on [[Jeffrey Archer]] and [[Michael Ancram]] and complaining that, 'sleaze seems to be real sleaze only if it can be stuck to the Conservative Party.' <ref>'Press and party as arbiters of morality in politics', ''The Times'', 27 November 1999; p.23</ref>

Revision as of 14:07, 18 December 2009

Kathryn Julia Gyngell (née Rowan) (born 7 April 1950), known as Kathy, is a former media researcher turned right-wing operative. She is the widow of Thatcher's favourite broadcaster Bruce Gyngell.

Education and career

Gyngell studied a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University and an M.Phil in sociology at Oxford. [1] She subsequent worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Television Research at Leeds University [2] where she worked under the US born media academic Jay Blumler. [3]

Gyngell later worked at the Features and Current Affairs Department at LWT before being appointed a Features Editor at TV-am. [4] In 1986 she married TV-am's managing director Bruce Gyngell. [5] After the birth of their second child in the late 1980s, Gyngell left her job at TV-am to work as a full time mother. She spent several years in Australia and on her return to London co-founded the Full Time Mothers Association, to raise consciousness about motherhood as 'a skilled job for intelligent women'. [6]

During the 1990s Gyngell wrote several letters to The Times, mainly relating to parenting and 'family values'. In November 1999 she wrote a letter referring to media attacks on Jeffrey Archer and Michael Ancram and complaining that, 'sleaze seems to be real sleaze only if it can be stuck to the Conservative Party.' [7]

Notes

  1. Screengrab of Kathy Gyngell's CV. Taken from <http://www.news-watch.co.uk/gyngell.php> on 27 November 2009
  2. Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality’, 16 September 2004; p.2
  3. A 1984 article by Blumler in Parliamentary Affairs credits Kathryn Rowan and with carrying out the research for the article - Jay G. Blumler, (1984) 'The Sound of Parliament', Parliamentary Affairs37(1) 250-266
  4. Kathy Gyngell & David Keighley, ‘Blair's EU-Turn: A case study in BBC partiality’, 16 September 2004; p.2
  5. 'The man who began to get younger at 46', Daily Mail, 25 August 1987
  6. Ros Coward, 'Women at war', Guardian, 22 March 1993; 'Working parents: how best to meet the children's needs', The Times, 7 February 1997; p.19
  7. 'Press and party as arbiters of morality in politics', The Times, 27 November 1999; p.23