John Tusa

Sir John Tusa ( born March 2, 1936) is a British radio and television journalist and arts manager. From 1980 to 1986 he was one of the main presenters of Newsnight program on BBC Two. From 1995 to 2007 he was Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre of the City of London. From 1986 to 1993 he was Managing Director of the BBC World Service.

Life and career

Tusa was born in March 1936 in the former Czechoslovakia and moved to England with his family in 1939. His father, also John Tusa - originally in January Tusa - called, was Managing Director of the British Bata Shoes, a Czech shoe company dedicated to international patterns also a working and living community for their factory in East Tilbury, Essex established in the business. On 15 March 1939, two days before the beginning of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany John Tusa sr fled. from Czechoslovakia in a corporate airplane from Bata Poland, Yugoslavia and France. He then became General Manager of the Bata factory in East Tilbury, where his son was growing up.

John Tusa Jr. attended St Faith 's School, Cambridge, Gresham 's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first class honors degree in history.

In 1960 he began to work as a trainee for the BBC. Having paraded from its start in 1979 Newsnight (1980? -1986 ) And also 24 hours, he was Managing Director of BBC World service from 1986 to 1993.

Tusa was from January to October President in 1993 of Wolfson College. Mid-1990s, he spent two years as news anchor at the BBC 's One O'Clock News ( 1993-1995 ). On June 30, 1997, he hosted the BBC's coverage of the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC. From 1995 to 2007 he was Managing Director of the Barbican Centre in the City of London.

Since 1998 he has been Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Supervisory Board (Board) at the Wigmore Hall in London and was appointed Chairman of the University of the Arts London 2007. It was announced on 18 June 2007 that he had accepted the position of chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum, but he came back a month later because he recognized a conflict of interest with his position at the University of the Arts London.

Tusa is next active as an author. Among his works are two books that he wrote with his wife, the historian Ann Tusa: The Nuremberg Trial ( 1983) and The Berlin Blockade (1988). His books on art include Art Matters, On Creativity and The Janus Aspect: Artists in the C20. His latest book is Engaged with the Arts: Writings from the Front Line, explores the ways in which art that is threatened in a cultural and political climate of constant underfunding, can still be created.

After he left his position at the BBC World Service, Tusa was some viewpoints critical of the BBC. He called the focus and management style of the former Director-General John Birt, Baron Birt deprecated.

In January 2009, Tusa was Chairman ( Chair ) of the Clore Leadership Programme. From October 2009 until the end of the year he presented a 91- part series on BBC Radio 4: Day By Day used original archive news photographs to represent events on a daily basis from 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall. In February 2010, he was Honorary Chairman ( Honorary Chairman ) of theartsdesk.com.

More offices

From 1982 to 1984 he was moderator of Time Watch on BBC 2 Tusa was until 2003 Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Government Art Collection. Since 1995 he has been Deputy Chairman ( Vice-Chairman ) of the London Institute String Quartet Competition. He was a member of several supervisory boards at the English National Opera from 1996 to 2003 and from 1998 to 2000 at the Design Museum. Tusa was a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the National Portrait Gallery from 1988 to 2000, from 2000 to 2009 at the British Museum - where he was from 2004 to 2009 Deputy Chairman ( Deputy Chairman ) - from 2004 to 2006 at the Somerset House, and since 2006 the Turquoise Mountain Trust, and in 2009 at New Deal of the Mind. He held that post even with the Thomson Foundation.

Honors

1984 Tusa RTS Journalist of the Year, the same year he was winner of the BAFTA Richard Dimbleby Award. Tusa was honored in 1991 with the Harvey Lee Award BPG Radio Awards. In 1995 he was RTS Presenter of the Year.

In 1997 he became Freeman of the City of London. He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1999.

Tusa is the winner of several honorary doctorates. He was a Doctor of Law ( Hon LLD) from the University of London in 1993. In 1994 he became an honorary doctorate from Heriot -Watt University and the University of Essex in 2006. The City University London in 1997 awarded him an honorary doctorate of Doctor of Letters ( Hon DLitt ).

The Kingston University honored him in 2007 with the honorary doctorate by the University, as of 2008, the University of Kent. In 2001 he received the Imperial Service Medal of the Imperial Service Order and was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Tusa was honored in 1997 with the Knight First Class Order of the White Rose of Finland.

In June 2003, Tusa was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for Knight Bachelor.

Publications

• The Nuremberg Trial, Macmillan, 1983/1984, ISBN 978-0333274637 ( with Ann Tusa )
• The Berlin Blockade, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1988, ISBN 978-0340416075 ( with Ann Tusa )
• Conversations with the World, BBC Books, 1990/1991, ISBN 978-0563360063
• A World in Your Ear, broadcast Books, 1992, ISBN 978-1874092018
• Art Matters: Reflecting on Culture, Methuen, 1999/2000, ISBN 978-0413738905
• On Creativity - Interviews Exploring the Process, Methuen Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-0413772992
• The Janus Aspect: Artists in the Twenty - First Century, Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2005, ISBN 978-0413774729
• Engaged with the Arts @ Writings from the Front Line, IB Tauris, 2007, ISBN 978-1845114244