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Maggie Brown Author

Maggie Brown is one of the UK’s leading media writers. Her career includes working and contributing to The Guardian and Observer, helping to launch The Independent as its first media editor in 1986 and writing A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4, published in 2007, the history of its first 25 years. She has a degree in history from Bristol University and an MA in journalism from Cardiff University where she studied under Sir Tom Hopkinson before training on the Birmingham Post & Mail. She is married, has four children, and lives in Dulwich, London and Wales.