Winner of a world journalism award, Mark McFadden is an Irish television news broadcaster.

He is currently the North West correspondent for UTV Live

UTV Live

UTV Live is the name of the regional news service broadcast on UTV, the ITV region in Northern Ireland. The first edition of the programme was transmitted on Monday 4 January 1993.-Weekday bulletins:*13:55...

, the flagship early evening news programme on the ITV regional company UTV

UTV

UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...

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Early life

Mark was born in Derry in 1965. He is a former pupil of St. Columb's College - a school that has two Nobel prize-winners among its alumni. After St. Columb's he studied French and English at Queen's University, Belfast.

Journalism career

His career in journalism began in 1988 with the Derry Journal

Derry Journal

The Derry Journal is a newspaper based in Derry, Northern Ireland, serving County Londonderry as well as County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. It is operated by a Johnston Press holding company entitled Derry Journal Newspapers. The paper is published on Tuesday and Friday and is a sister...

, the second oldest English-language newspaper in the world.

During six years at the Journal he worked in news, features and sports. He also contributed reports to London broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

 newspapers The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 and The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

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Broadcasting career

In April 1994 Mark joined the UTV Live team becoming the face of UTV in the North West of Ireland. He works mainly on hard news reports - covering politics, serious crime, the economy, etc. However, he also produces a wide range of material for the sports and features departments.

Mark was UTV's correspondent throughout the entire course of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry

Bloody Sunday Inquiry

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report after its chairman, Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry on Bloody Sunday...

. This Tribunal of Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, sat at the Guildhall in Derry and at Methodist Central Hall in London. It was the longest and most expensive Inquiry in UK legal history. Mark was the only television journalist to cover the Bloody Sunday Inquiry from its inception in 1998 to its conclusion in June 2010 when Lord Saville's final report was published.

He is primarily based in UTV's new studio in Derry

Derry

Derry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Doire or Doire Cholmcille meaning "oak-wood of Colmcille"...

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World Awards

Mark has won a number of prestigious journalism awards at regional, national and international levels. In April 2011, he won two prizes at the New York International TV & Film Awards. He picked up the World Gold Medal for journalism in honour of his coverage of Lord Saville's inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings, and he scooped the World Silver Medal for his 2010 UTV documentary 'Insight: Bloody Justice' which examined Bloody Sunday and the Saville Inquiry.

'Bloody Justice' was also winner of the News & Current Affairs Programme of the Year prize at the 2011 Institute of Public Relations media awards. The Chairman of the Judges said: “I thought I knew all about Bloody Sunday until I watched 'Bloody Justice'. The sequence re-enacting the individual killings was gripping, evocative and startling. Each part of the current affairs machine purred powerfully through this splendid offering."

Organisers of the New York International TV & Film Awards have invited Mark to be a member of the jury for the 2011-'12 awards.