'Public sector broadcasting and trust in dangerous times'
Join us TODAY to hear @dorotheabyrne - Editor-at-Large @Channel4 and a Visiting Fellow at the RISJ - deliver the next of our #RISJSeminars
Chair: @MeeraSelva1
🕑 14:00 BST - TODAY
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She is one of the UK's most senior broadcast journalists having left her role as Head of News and Current Affairs @Channel4 in May which she held since 2003. She previously worked in docs and current affairs including World in Action and The Big Story @itvnews and @C4Dispatches
"If your newsroom is not diverse, you will get the news wrong"
Last year she spoke to us on the importance of having a diverse newsroom and efforts to ensure staff at Channel 4 were reflective of the country.
Read the full transcript here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/if…
In August 2019 she made headlines as she blasted world leaders and top media executives in her MacTaggart Lecture at the @EdinburghTVFest. Watch the speech:
In an interview with @pressgazette marking the end of her time at Head of News and Current Affairs she said: “It’s been journalists who have gone out in this country and discovered what is really happening… [in] the most fantastic public service role.”
pressgazette.co.uk/dorothy-byrne-…
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