Editing World in Action (section)

===Academic connections===
[[Brian Winston]], Pro-Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at the [[University of Lincoln]], who has also held leading posts at the Universities of [[University of Westminster|Westminster]], [[Cardiff University|Cardiff]], [[Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State]] and [[New York University|New York]], was a researcher and producer in the early series of ''World in Action''.

Ray Fitzwalter, ''WIA's'' longest-serving editor and the man behind the ground-breaking Poulson investigations, became a visiting fellow at the [[University of Salford]] School of Media, Music, and Performance.

The late Gavin MacFadyen, who worked on early series of ''World in Action'' as a producer-director, best known for his undercover human-rights films, became a visiting professor at [[City University London|City University]] in 2005. He was also director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

[[David Leigh (journalist)|David Leigh]], who made ''Jonathan of Arabia'', the film which provoked [[Jonathan Aitken]]'s self-destructive libel action,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,288254,00.html|title=Corruption unbecoming|work=[[The Guardian]]|first=David|last=Leigh|author-link=David Leigh (journalist)|date=9 June 1999|access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref> was made Britain's first professor of reporting at City University, London, in September 2006.