Mark McFadden

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Mark McFadden is a Northern Irish journalist. He is currently the North West correspondent for UTV Live, the flagship early evening news programme on the ITV regional company UTV.

Mark is a former pupil of St.Columb's College - one of the few schools which can boast two Nobel prize-winners among its alumni.

He is primarily based in UTV's new studio in Derry. His career in journalism began in 1988 with the Derry Journal, the second oldest English-language newspaper in the world.

During six a half years at the Journal he worked in news, features and sports. He also contributed reports to London broadsheet newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. In the early 1990s, he became editor of the mid-week edition of the Journal.

In April 1994 Mark joined the UTV Live team becoming very much the face of UTV in Ireland's North West area. He works mainly on hard news reports - covering politics, serious crime, the economy, etc. However, he also produces a wide range of material for the sports and features departments.

Mark mainly contributes to the UTV Media group's television news output, but he can also be heard covering a wide range of news and features for radio. He broadcasts reports from the North West for UTV's Belfast-based radio station U105 and its sister radio stations within the UTV Media organisation.

Mark was UTV's regular correspondent throughout the entire course of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. This Tribunal of Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, sat at the Guildhall in Derry and at Methodist Central Hall in London. It was the longest and most expensive Inquiry in UK legal history.