Fiona Fox
Fiona Fox | |
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Born | [1] | 12 November 1964
Alma mater | Polytechnic of Central London |
Occupation | Journalist Press secretary Public relations |
Employer | Science Media Centre Previously: NCOPF Equal Opportunities Commission CAFOD Thames Polytechnic[1] |
Known for | Science Media Centre[2] |
Spouse(s) | Kevin Rooney[1] |
Awards | OBE[3] |
Website | www www |
Fiona Bernadette Fox OBE (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer. She is the director of the Science Media Centre[2] and a former leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.[4][5][6][7][8]
Career[]
Fox became head of media at CAFOD in 1995,[1] where she adopted the Jubilee 2000 press group, which aimed to push serious Third World issues onto the media and political agendas.
She was accused of genocide denial by Chris McGreal in relation to a report she wrote in 1995 for the magazine Living Marxism on the violence in Rwanda,[9] which she wrote under the pseudonym Fiona Foster.[10]
In December 2001 Fox was appointed the founding director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.[2]
Awards[]
Fox was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to science.[3]
Personal life[]
Fox was born into an Irish Catholic family in Mancot, near Hawarden, North Wales,[1] the younger sister of Claire (born 1960) and Gemma (born 1963, adopted into Fox family in 1964).[11] She is a supporter of Celtic F.C.[1] and is married to political commentator and teacher Kevin Rooney.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "FOX, Fiona, (Mrs Kevin Rooney)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Callaway, E. (2013). "Science media: Centre of attention: Fiona Fox and her Science Media Centre are determined to improve Britain's press. Now the model is spreading around the world". Nature. 499 (7457): 142. doi:10.1038/499142a.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 10.
- ^ Chemistry World: Comment: Playing fast and loose with science (November 2006) - Following the release of the WWF report ‘Chain of contamination: the food link’, John Henry and Fiona Fox comment on the study, and its coverage in the media
- ^ Chemistry World: Nanotech - The Next Controversy alike GM? (February 2004)
- ^ "On Science and the Media". fionafox.blogspot.com.
- ^ LobbyWatch profile of Fox
- ^ "Fiona Fox - The Guardian". the Guardian.
- ^ Chris McGreal, "Genocide? What genocide?", The Guardian, 20 March 2000
- ^ Turner, Jenny (8 July 2010). "Who Are They?: Jenny Turner reports from the Battle of Ideas". London Review of Books. 32 (13): 3–8. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Sunday Times: Relative Values Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters (May 2006) - An interview with Claire and Fiona Fox
External links[]
- Profile at SourceWatch
- 1964 births
- Living people
- People educated at St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint
- People from Hawarden
- Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978) members
- British public relations people
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire