Donal Macintyre
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Donal MacIntyre (born 25 January 1966) is an Irish investigative journalist specialising in undercover operations, and television broadcasting. MacIntyre has increasingly shifted to presenting on films where his coworkers have undercover work has endured.
On the BBC and Channel 5, he has also expanded into more traditional presentation roles, including meteorology and wildlife documentaries.
He produced A Very British Gangster, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.
MacIntyre was runner-up to Ray Quinn in the fourth series of Dancing on Ice on Ice on ITV starting in April 2010.
In 2014, he appeared in the first series of The Jump, where he finished second behind Joe McElderry. MacIntyre is a producer on the CBS Reality documentary film Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved, which looks at unsolved cases such as kidnappings and murders that MacIntyre and his staff are currently working on.
Early life
MacIntyre is a twin and one of a family of five children. He was educated in Dublin and London and obtained a master's degree in Communication Policy at City University, London.
Career
After graduating, he worked as a Sunday Tribune reporter and then with The Irish Press in Dublin, covering finance, sports, and news. He was the first to publish his first investigative report into the Law Society into allegations of restrictive practices. He later wrote similar investigative articles for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Express, and the New Statesman.
MacIntyre began his television career with the BBC on the investigative sports strand On-The-Line in 1993. His canoeing experience made him the right choice to investigate the incident and the safety culture that had encouraged it in the aftermath of the Lyme Regis canoeing tragedy, in which four school children drowned. To expose the lack of employment skills in the field, he went undercover as an Adventure Sports Instructor. This probe resulted in MacIntyre's distinctive investigative reporting style, which he described as being present for the investigation rather than simply reporting facts about it:
During its investigation of the Elite modelling company, the first series of MacIntyre Investigates for the BBC caused some controversy when it was accused of falsifying video evidence and blackmail. The BBC was sued for defamation, avoided court by a deal, and released a statement adamant that MacIntyre had misrepresented the organization in his work, but that they stood by him.
He began to receive more critical reports from within sources toward the end of his second series of MacIntyre Investigates for the BBC. An episode of Panorama, by contrast, could have cost as much as £2.5 million, while a Panorama episode would have cost £100,000 to £150,000. Lorraine Heggessey, BBC One's then controller, expected MacIntyre Investigates to publish the ratings, a threat that some investigative journalists believe undermined its editorial integrity.
MacIntyre began to film "do a Michael Moore for gangsters," in penetrating a world of super wealthy criminals with no apparent means of support: "It was fascinating to turn 180 degrees from my clandestine roots to have full access." "I wanted to create a friendship."
The resulting film, titled A Very British Gangster, centered on the life of Manchester-based gangster and hit man Dominic Noonan, whose brother Desmond Noonan was stabbed to death during filming.
For the SMOKE IS POISON campaign, MacIntyre supervised anti-smoking ads. The Polonium commercial was included in the series, but the British government had barred it from showing compassion to the family of murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed by the drug.
On BBC Radio 5 Live, MacIntyre has hosted a weekly radio show from April 6 to May 2008.
Both he and his wife, Ameera de la Rosa (who was suffering from a brain tumour at the time), were assaulted and beaten at the Cloud 9 wine bar in Hampton Court in June 2009, in what is believed to have been a revenge attack involving Jason Marriner and other Chelsea hooligans in the 1999 documentary.
MacIntyre co-hosted ITV1's local news show London Tonight for a short period of time in 2010.
He writes for Sunday World and is a visiting professor of criminalology at Birmingham City University, where he has served as a panelist on the Crime Bites Podcast.
MacIntyre appeared in the fourth series of the television series Dancing on Ice in 2009. The runners up were he and his pro-skating partner Florentine Houdiniere.
In 2014, MacIntyre appeared in the first series of Channel 4's reality show The Jump. He began as a reserve in case of injury to other participants, then took his place as the incapacitated Melinda Messenger from the fifth night (30 January 2014). He came in second place in the series, finishing second, behind Joe McElderry, who had also been a reserve contestant.