John Mair is a former associate senior lecturer in broadcast journalism at the Coventry University Department of Media and Communication.
He has published five books on journalism and frequently appears in print and broadcast talking about the media.
Mair has invited household names such as Jon Snow, Kirsty Wark, Jeremy Vine, BBC Director General Mark Thompson, Trevor Philips and Baroness Amos to take part in Coventry Conversations and address students at the university.
[citation needed] Mair, who has more than two hundred broadcast credits to his name, as well as covering several world leader summits.
On 4 October 2011, Mair was scheduled to give expert evidence to the House of Lords' Communications Committee on the state of investigative journalism.