William Horsley, Esq

Career: prodr BBC Far Eastern Serv External Servs 1971-74, BBC secondee to Radio Japan (Japan Broadcasting Co Tokyo 1974-76, prodr Special Current Affairs unit BBC and The World Tonight 1977-80, prodr and news presenter Newsnight BBC TV 1981, reporter The World Tonight and BBC Radio News 1981-83, Tokyo corr and bureau chief BBC Tokyo 1983-90, corr for radio and TV BBC Bonn 1991-97, BBC European Affairs corr 1997-2007; chm Foreign Press 1984-88; chm Br branch AEJ 2002-, media freedom rep of Int AEJ 2007-; int dir Sheffield Univ Centre for Media Freedom 2008-; visiting fell City Univ Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism 2011-; Assoc of Euro Journalists Euro Journalism Prize 2000

Books and Publications: Newspapers and Democracy (contrib, 1980), Nippon - New Superpower (with Roger Buckley, 1990), Goodbye to Freedom? A Survey of Media Freedom in Europe (2007 and 2008); author of numerous articles on Japan, Germany and int affairs in The Listener, The World Today, International Herald Tribune and other jls