Marcus Herbert
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Marcus Herbert
International Fellow
herbemd1@stanford.edu
executive producer
Factual Programmes
British Broadcasting Corp.
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Herbert will explore the cultural, intellectual and business aspects involved in developing a better mainstream science journalism approach in the UK.
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Herbert was born and raised in London. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Bristol. In 1986, he began his career as a radio producer for the BBC's World Service in London. From 1991-1997, he was a producer for the BBC TV News program "Newsnight," a daily late night news analysis program. In 1997, he then joined BBC's Foreign News department as a bureau producer Washington and New York, culminating in the coverage of millennium night in New York's Times Square. He returned to "Newsnight " and London in 2000 as an assistant editor. In 2004, he helped launch "The Culture Show," a new weekly primetime arts magazine. Since 2004, he has been based in Glasgow for BBC Scotland Factual TV, a unit that produces science programs for the network.
