David Kogan

David Barnett Kogan OBE (born September 1957)[1] is a British media executive, historian and journalist, living in London.[2] He has worked as both a journalist and a senior executive at the BBC, Reuters Television, Granada Channels, Wasserman Media Group and Magnum Photos. He has written about the history of the Labour Party.[3]

Career

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Kogan was educated at Haverstock Comprehensive School in Camden, London; and at Balliol College, Oxford.[4]

From 1982 he was a producer at BBC Radio working on Today; at BBC Television working on Newsnight and Breakfast Time; and at BBC America.[4] From 1988 he was managing editor and then global managing director at Reuters Television.[4][5] From 1996 he was executive director at Granada Channels.[6] In 1998 he co-founded media advisory company Reel Enterprises with Sara Munds, and was its Chief executive officer (CEO).[4] In 2011, Reel was acquired by Wasserman Media Group, where Kogan and Munds went to work in media rights.[7] In 2014 he and Munds left and set up Exile Enterprises.[4] Kogan was executive director / CEO of Magnum Photos[8] from 2015[4][9] to 2019.[10]

Kogan was "the Premier League's chief media rights adviser from 1998 to 2015 and a key architect of its global financial success".[11][12] Other media rights clients have included the English Football League, Premiership Rugby, the International Olympic Committee and the National Football League (NFL).[4] He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2014 Birthday Honours for services to diplomacy, having been asked to provide advice on FCO Services funds.[4][13][14] While at Magnum in 2018, prompted by allegations of sexual misconduct against two of its photographers, Kogan led the agency in creating a formal code of conduct for both its photographers and staff.[15][16]

Kogan's first book was The Battle for the Labour Party, published with his uncle, Maurice Kogan, in 1981.[17] The later Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party (2019) is a 400-page book that builds on the earlier work, based on many interviews. William Davies described the latter work in The Guardian as a "meticulous review of four decades of intra-party struggles" up to February 2019.[18]

In April 2020 Kogan became a director of LabourList, an independent news site for the Labour Party.[19]

Publications

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  • The Battle for the Labour Party. 1981. With Maurice Kogan.
    • Second, updated edition. Fontana, 1982. ISBN 978-0006365129. Contains 2 additional chapters.
    • London: Bloomsbury Reader, 2018. ISBN 9781448217359.
  • The Attack on Higher Education. London: Kogan Page, 1983. ISBN 9780850387551.
  • Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party. London: Bloomsbury Reader, 2019. ISBN 9781448217298.[20][21]

References

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  1. ^ "David Kogan Limited - Company Profile - Endole". suite.endole.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  2. ^ "David Kogan". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  3. ^ Sylvester, Rachel. "Protest and Power by David Kogan review — the battle for the Labour Party". www.thetimes.co.uk. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "'Magnum is too important to fail. It will be saved and it is prospering'". The Guardian. 7 June 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Magnum Photos Becomes a TV Show". Time. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  6. ^ Beenstock, Sue. "Media: In Brief: Kogan joins Granada Channels". PRWeek. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Wasserman Media Group Acquiring U.K.-Based Reel Enterprises". Sports Business Daily. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Magnum CEO: Learn from the next generation". BBC News. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  9. ^ "The media industry 'has changed beyond all recognition': Magnum's new CEO on adapting to the digital landscape". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Magnum Photos CEO David Kogan leaves the agency 1 March". Photo Archive News. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  11. ^ Jackson, Jamie; MacInnes, Paul. "Liverpool among clubs to argue against paying €384m TV rebate". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Fear over Premiership TV deal". The Guardian. 15 December 2002. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2014: Diplomatic". The Guardian. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  14. ^ "In full: Queen's Birthday Honours List". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  15. ^ "How photojournalism's biggest agencies are combating harassment". www.1854.photography. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  16. ^ "Magnum's moment of reckoning". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Protest or power? - British politics". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  18. ^ "Protest and Power by David Kogan review – the battle for the Labour party". The Guardian. 13 April 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  19. ^ Kogan, David (12 July 2021). "Keir Starmer's Labour Party: where are we now?". LabourList. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  20. ^ "Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party". Foreign Affairs. 15 October 2019. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  21. ^ Sandbrook, Dominic. "Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party by David Kogan review — how the party ended up with Corbyn". www.thetimes.co.uk. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
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