Declan Curry
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Declan Gerald Curry (born 5 September 1971) is a Northern Irish freelance journalist, news presenter and businessman, best known as the former business correspondent for BBC Breakfast.
Early life
Curry was born and raised in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.[1]
Career
Early career
Curry studied chemistry at Imperial College, London. There he reported for IC Radio and ICNN (Imperial College News Network), as well as the weekly paper Felix.
Curry has worked for and broadcast on ABC News and LBC, but has spent most of his career with the BBC.
BBC
Curry started working for the BBC in 1994. He worked on the BBC News Channel from the channel's inception in 1997. He has also worked for BBC World News, Radio 5 Live, and Radio 4. Curry is best known for his reporting of the happenings in the London Stock Exchange and other British economic news, particularly during the Breakfast programme on BBC One and BBC News Channel.
On 23 May 2005, Curry did not participate in a staff strike against announced pay cuts.[2] He justified his stance by commenting: "I don't support the strike at all. The management have made a very strong case in my view as to why these cuts are necessary. It's other people's money that we are spending and we have to use it as wisely as we can."[3]
On 6 October 2008, Curry began a new role as presenter of BBC Two's Working Lunch, alongside Naga Munchetty, replacing the previous team headed by Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw. After the programme ended in July 2010[4] Curry was a regular host of Your Money on the BBC News Channel on Saturday mornings until August 2014.
Curry introduced the business and finance reports on Radio 5 Live's Drive programme, and has also presented the programme on occasions.[5][6]
From 5 September 2010, Curry presented On the Money, a Sunday evening business programme on Radio 5 Live,[7] and later hosting the business debate programme Show Me The Money on the News Channel,[8] also on Sunday evening at 21.30.[9]
At the end of summer 2014, Curry, who has been freelance for many years, decided to stop making long term programmes for the BBC. He now concentrates on print journalism, public speaking and acting as a business conference chair.[10] He also presents business news for LBC and LBC News.
Awards
On 6 July 2009, Curry was awarded an honorary degree from Middlesex University.[11]
References
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- ↑ BBC's Working Lunch show to end BBC News, 23 April 2010
- ↑ 5 Live Drive BBC Radio 5 Live, 31 May 2010
- ↑ 5 Live Drive BBC Radio 5 Live, 22 July 2010
- ↑ Radio 5 Live launches new look to Sunday evenings featuring cream of business, politics and current affairs BBC Press Office, 10 August 2010
- ↑ Declan Curry and Harry Gration head for Examiner Business Awards event Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 10 November 2010
- ↑ Show Me The Money BBC News Channel
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". MyFS-Events.co.uk. Retrieved 13 December 2014
- ↑ Honorary Graduates Template:Webarchive Middlesex University, July 2009
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External links
- Template:Trim/ Declan Curry at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Curry biodata @ BBC Presenters
- Working Lunch
Video clips
- Pages with script errors
- 1971 births
- Living people
- People from Strabane
- Alumni of Imperial College London
- British business and financial journalists
- Radio personalities from Northern Ireland
- Television presenters from Northern Ireland
- BBC newsreaders and journalists
- BBC Radio 5 Live presenters
- Broadcasters from County Tyrone