Chief

So farewell, Torin "Torrid" Douglas, BBC Media Correspondent since 1988, who is hanging up his Corporation iPhone at the end of May.

After graduating from Warwick, Torin joined the staff of DC Thomson's Weekly News (launched in 1855 and still going) where he was required to write a consumer column under the byline "Anne Muir". Thence to Campaign, the IBA, Marketing Week, The Times and The Independent.

He came to the BBC in the Radio News & Current Affairs department - many of whom thought the idea of a media correspondent was just too racy.  On his first day he was taken on a tour of introduction. PM presenter, Valerie Singleton, “looked at me and in her best Blue Peter tones said ‘What is a media correspondent?’” At Today, presenter Brian Redhead told him “Oh well, I hope you get a proper job one day”.

He kept it ticking over very nicely for 25 years - too often having to steer through stories inside the BBC, but doing it with clarity and without fear.