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Journalist and broadcaster appointed uni professor

Long-serving BBC journalist and broadcaster Angela Rippon OBE has been appointed as a visiting journalism professor at an East Midlands university.

Miss Rippon joins a long list of visiting professors at the University of Lincoln and will be giving lectures and hosting workshops on consumer journalism during a three-year tenture.

Journalism professor Richard Keeble said: “Angela Rippon is recognised internationally as an outstanding journalist and we are delighted to establish this link with her.

“She is keen to help us in our teaching programme and I am sure the students will benefit enormously from her experience and enthusiasm.”

Angela became the BBC’s first regular woman newsreader in 1976 and was awarded an OBE for her services to broadcasting in 2004.

More recently, she presented a series of BBC One consumer affairs programmes entitled ‘Rip Off Britain’ with Jennie Bond and Gloria Hunniford which investigated the practices of some of the leading High Street names.

Her CV also includes stints presenting Top Gear, panel game show What’s My Line? for three years and radio show Breakfast with Angela Rippon on LBC.

She has also written a series of children’s books, a number of keep-fit guides for older people and a biography of Prince Anne’s first husband, Mark Phillips.

Other visiting professors at the Lincoln School of Journalism include head of Channel 4 News and Current Affairs Dorothy Byrne, BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall and director of ethics campaigning body MediaWise Mike Jempson.