Mark Worthington (journalist)

Mark Alexander Worthington (born 10 May 1977) is a former BBC journalist, a regular media commentator, and the Co-Founder of the Singapore-headquartered strategic communications company, Klareco Communications. Worthington was managing director with Bell Pottinger Asia in Singapore at the time the UK-based parent company went into administration (bankruptcy) as a consequence of a scandal caused by its activities in South Africa. He led the rebranding and management buyout of Bell Pottinger Asia that led to its rebirth as Klareco Communications.
He regularly appears as an expert commentator in the media on business and reputational issues, and UK politics, and he was a regular expert panelist for Channel NewsAsia on Views on the News. Worthington was formerly a Correspondent with BBC News, where he spent 10 years reporting for the BBC's network news programmes on television and radio.
Education
Worthington was educated at Stubbington House School, a former boys' junior independent school in Ascot in Berkshire, which had relocated from the village of Stubbington in Hampshire, followed by Bradfield College, a senior boarding independent school in the village of Bradfield (near Reading), also in Berkshire, which he left in 1995. He then went up to Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a BA Honours degree in English Language and Literature. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University London.
Life and career
In 2011, Worthington reported for the BBC on the clearance of the illegal traveller site at Dale Farm in Essex and the aftermath of the in Japan. He has worked as the BBC's Midlands Correspondent and as a reporter for BBC Northern Ireland, where he was nominated for the international Concentra Award for outstanding video journalism. Worthington has also worked as a news producer for the Japanese network Tokyo Broadcasting System, and was mentioned during the Hutton Inquiry as one of the journalists in contact with the government scientist Dr. David Kelly.

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