George Pollard

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George Nicholas Pollard (born 15 November 1950) is a British journalist and the former head of Sky News.

Personal life

Past- Nick Pollard was born on November 15, 1950 in Birkenhead. He obtained his education at Birkenhead School. Throughout his career he has worked in multiple news stations. He first started working as a reporter at the Birkenhead News, and then shifted his career to BBC from 1977 to 1980. He worked as a television journalist at ITNfrom 1980 to 1992, and an executive producer from 1987 to 1992. His last news station that he worked at was Sky News from 1996 to 2006. Pollard resigned surprisingly after being in charge of Sky News for 10 years. In 2014 Pollard created Forces TV, a UK TV channel that is all about the armed forces and is really adamant about showing the world his television show. Not like other news stations or television shows, his station is broadcasted by him and his small number of employees compared to the corporations who employ over 250 personnel. His show is aimed for young men, veterans, and friends of those who currently or did serve their country. He expresses that the armed forces should get representation and that is why he created Forces TV. Currently Pollard is 69 years and married to Sally Behenna who has two children.

Early life and education

Pollard was born in Birkenhead and educated at Birkenhead School, an independent school in the town.George (Nick) Pollard is from Birkenhead, United Kingdom. He attended Birkenhead School, an independent school in the town He was born on November 15, 1950. He is 69 years old. Son of John Pollard and Joan Crowle. There is not any information that could be found about much of his early life.

Career in journalism

Nick Pollard was the former head of Sky News. The Guardian has said Pollard worked as a Chief executive of the Service and Vision Corporation. This charity ran British forces Broadcasting Services. This service provided radio, websites, TV channels and air force personnel. Following many accusations that were thrown at him, he still directed all of his energy in modernising British Forces Broadcasting Service. In 2013, Pollard won a 10-year contract from the Ministry of Defense. He worked as a reporter from 1968 to 1971. After that he worked at Birkenhead News till 1973. After that he worked with West Lancashire Press 1973 radio journalist. Continuing to BBC from 1974 to 1977. Pollard stayed with the BBC from 1980 to 1892 and worked with the TV News. Since Pollard was with that company for such a long time, he got a raise to be the executive producer. In 1996 to 2006 Pollard was the head of Sky News. In 2009 he became the chief executive which provided British Forces Broadcasting Services. BBC Savile inquiry report happened in 2014 which SSVC (Services Sound and Vision Corporation) launched Forces TV.

Sky News

He joined Sky News where he worked from 1996 to 2006. In 2009 he was appointed as chief executive of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), responsible for providing broadcasting and cinema services to British forces and their families.

Jimmy Savile Scandal

In October 2012, Pollard was appointed to lead an inquiry into the BBC following allegations of sexual abuse by the late broadcaster and disc jockey Jimmy Savile. Pollard's remit was to look at why an investigation into Savile's activities by journalists on the BBC Two news programme Newsnight was dropped shortly before it was due to be transmitted. His report was published in December 2012 and concluded that the decision to drop the original Newsnight report in December 2011 was "flawed", but that it had not been done to protect programs prepared as tributes to Savile. His report criticised George Entwistle, at that time Director of BBC Vision, for apparently failing to read emails warning him of Savile's "dark side", and stated that, after the allegations against Savile eventually became public, the BBC fell into a "level of chaos and confusion [that] was even greater than was apparent at the time".

Political Views

Nick Pollard has not publicly stated his political views on any platform; However, several quotes from interviews with The Press Gazette and The Independent have illustrated he has an opposition to the conservative party. “Maybe it is hard for non-BBC journalists to accept that the news-viewing public are more conservative than we hoped, or have imagined. Who knows?” (https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ex-head-sky-news-nick-pollard-papers-get-more-stories-because-broadcast-much-more-complicated/) "It's interesting to see the BBC jumping through hoops of their own making on this. Last Thursday they clearly made a decision to be very, very conservative and stuck with one caption saying..” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/nick-pollard-the-man-who-put-sky-on-top-302864.html

Prominent life events

Nick Pollard led an in-depth investigation of the 2012 Jimmy Savile scandal, which involved hundreds of reports of sexual abuse by Savile arising six months after his death in October 2011. Pollard was delegated with the task of investigating Newsnight’s decision to cancel the airing of Savile’s investigation in order to avoid contending with the Christmas tribute set to occur in December. The conclusion derived from The Pollard Report leads back to BBC’s “critical lack of leadership and coordination” that cultivated a silo mentality in the workplace. In a 2013 interview, Pollard says he didn’t successfully get to the bottom of the inquiry because his sources claimed they were unable to remember many important events. BBC and The Guardian published statements praising Nick Pollard for his insightful cooperation with the investigation.

Legacy

Pollard was titled “The most gifted TV journalist of his generation” in 2004. The TV veteran cemented his legacy when becoming editor of News at Ten (ITN) and being head of Sky News (1996-2006) for 10 years. His last year was one of his strongest years after its coverage on the Buncefield oil depot explosion, a tsunami and the 7 July Bombing. This was also a changing year because in October of 2006, Sky News was given a channel relaunch. In his last year at Sky News, he handed the head position to John Ryley.

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Preceded by	Head of Sky News 1996 – June 2006	Succeeded by John Ryley

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