Tessa Clarke
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| Born | London, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
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| Years active | 1989 - present |
| Children | 1 |
Tessa Clarke is an award-winning political and investigative journalist, author and prime-time TV documentary presenter and reporter.
She campaigns for free speech and democracy and reports on a variety of topics including politics, privacy, the monarchy, media and law [1]. Clarke is known for her investigative and undercover reports as well as her books, political commentary and activism.[citation needed]
She has worked as an investigative journalist and on-screen reporter and presenter for prime-time TV programmes on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News. She's also reported for The Sunday Times (Insight Team) and The Spectator. Clarke was part of a BAFTA-winning BBC youth reporting team as the BBC's first investigative and undercover youth consumer reporter.
She has worked as an investigative journalist and on-screen reporter and presenter for prime-time TV programmes on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky News. She's also reported for The Sunday Times (Insight Team) and The Spectator. Clarke was part of a BAFTA-winning BBC youth reporting team as the BBC's first investigative and undercover youth consumer reporter.
Her commentary, blog and feature writing has been published on Spiked-online as well as in The Sunday Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Spectator, Die Welt newspaper, LM magazine and Living Marxism magazine.
In 1997 Clarke set up In 1997 Clarke set up The Freedom and Privacy Project to investigate the impact of the new call for privacy restrictions on the media following the death of Princess Diana. Interviewing about 50 national and local editors, journalist, photographers and media lawyers concerned at the rise of privacy rules curbing a free press, the results were published by the London International Research Exchange media group in "Disclosure: media freedom and the privacy debate after Diana.",[2] Extracts were re-published in The Times and debates were held at events she organised all around the country.
In 2001 she researched how freedom of speech was impacted by court cases brought by rich and powerful public figures. They argued for increased privacy rights to control press coverage about their lives. Clarke interviewed a variety of editors, journalists, TV producers, photographers, lawyers, media organisation chiefs and media academics for and against the new restrictions. The report of her findings "Restraint or Revelation? Free speech and privacy in a confessional age"[3] was published by spiked-online in 2002. It was applauded as an "original contribution" and "an excellent survey" by those on both sides of the debate.
Currently Clarke continues to write on press freedom including recently on the controversy about Princess Diana's interview with BBC Panorama and the court cases brought by Megan Markle and Prince Harry against various media.[4][5] She is on the Advisory Board of Academics for Academic Freedom [6], a member of the Free Speech Union and the National Union of Journalists.
References
- ↑ Clarke, Tessa. "Tessa Clarke (II)". IMDb. IMDb. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ↑ Mayes, Tessa (1998). Disclosure - Media Freedom and the Privacy Debate After Diana. London International Research Exchange Media Group. p. 64. ISBN 9780953273102.
- ↑ Tessa, Mayes (22 October 2002). Restraint or Revelation: Free Speech and Privacy in a Confessional Age (A Spiked report) Paperback – 22 Oct. 2002. Spiked. p. 100. ASIN 0954391209.
- ↑ Clarke, Tessa. "Meghan's war on the press is about PR, not privacy". Spiked-Online. Spiked-Online. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ↑ Clarke, Tessa. "Articles by Tessa Clarke". Spiked-Online.
- ↑ Clarke, Tessa. "AFAF ADVISORY BOARD and MEMBERS". AFAF. AFAF. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
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