[1] Winston was born in Evesham, Worcestershire,[1] but grew up in North London, where he attended Kilburn Grammar School before going up to Merton College, Oxford in 1960 to read for a degree in Jurisprudence.
[1] Winston had worked in television current affairs and features, documentaries and as a print journalist since 1963.
He was awarded an Emmy in 1985 for documentary script writing for his contribution to the PBS television series Heritage: Civilization and the Jews.
He wrote on free expression and theories of technological change in the media and was also known for being one of the first to address the issue of documentary ethics.
His Media, Technology and Society[7] was named the best book of 1998 by the American Association for History and Computing.