Kurt Barling

J. Kurt Barling (born November 1961) is a British professor of journalism at Middlesex University. He previously worked as a journalist for the BBC for 25 years and before that as a lecturer at the London School of Economics. In 1997, he won the CRE's Reporter of the Year award. where he attended comprehensive school. earning an MSc in Government and a PhD in International Relations, and going on to lecture in LSE's International Relations Department.

Barling was motivated to become a journalist after observing the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots at first hand. In 1989, he joined the BBC, where over the following 25 years he worked on a wide range of prestigious news and current affairs programmes, on both television and radio, including Newsnight, Today, The Money Programme and Black Britain. and from 2001 to 2014 was the Special Correspondent for BBC London News, writing a weekly online column for seven years known latterly as the blog "Barling's London". Barling was one of the BBC's longest-serving ethnic minority journalists.

In 2016 Barling edited and wrote an introduction to the book Finsternis in Deutschland, a translation of E. Amy Buller's Darkness over Germany, originally published in English in 1943 during World War II. A copy of the book was presented to the Queen, who had met Buller in 1944 after the book's first publication.

Awards 1995: Winner, Bradford & Bingley Personal Finance Awards (Money Check, BBC Radio 5 Live). 1996: Winner, Golden Pen Personal Finance Awards, (Money Box, BBC Radio 4). 1997: Winner, CRE, RIMA (Race in the Media Award), TV Reporter of the Year (BBC News). 1998: Winner, CRE, RIMA, TV Reporter of the Year (Black Britain). Commended, Radio Reporter of the Year (BBC News). 2001: Nominations for Sports Documentary of the Year: Royal Television Society RTS), EMMAs. 2002: Reporter of the Year Nominations: Royal Television Society (London), EMMAs. 2003: Winner, CRE, RIMA, TV Reporter of the Year (BBC London News). 2004: Nomination Reporter of the Year, Royal Television Society (London). 2005: Winner, CRE, RIMA, Best Film Documentary. Nomination, CRE, RIMA TV Reporter of the Year. 2006: Winner, RIMA, Television News. Finalist, One World Media Awards. Shortlisted, RTS London, Reporter of the Year.

Selected publications Barling, Kurt, & Reda Hassaine (2014), Abu Hamza Guilty: The fight against radical Islam, London: Redshank Books. Barling, Kurt (2015), The R word: Racism. Provocations. London: Biteback Publishing. Barling, K. (ed. and introduction), Buller, E. A., Finsternis in Deutschland (trans. from Darkness over Germany, 1934), Munchen: Sandmann Verlag, 2016