Graham Dudman, the former Sun managing editor who left the newspaper earlier this month following a three-year legal battle in which he was cleared of charges relating to payments for stories, has become a consultant to a journalism school.
He is to work on a part-time basis for News Associates. The agency, with bases in London and Manchester, has been named for the last two years as the UK’s top fast-track journalism course by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).
Dudman, a member of the NCTJ’s accreditation panel, has been a visiting tutor at News Associates for the past two years.
He spent 20 years at the Sun, holding a range of jobs. After a lengthy spell as managing editor he became News UK’s editorial development director, working across the Sun, Times and Sunday Times.
Dudman said of his new appointment: “I am delighted to be working with News Associates. The NCTJ results speak for themselves.”
News Associates managing editor, James Toney, said: “We are delighted to be able to draw on the advice of a journalist of Graham’s calibre”. His “experience will be invaluable to our trainees as we prepare them for their first steps into the industry”.
NB: I gave a statement on Graham’s behalf before he was tried, and acquitted, of all charges following the Operation Elveden investigation into payments by journalists to public officials.
