Acting BBC Director-General Tim Davie has today
announced plans to launch more free training days for women who have
specialist or expert knowledge and who want to share it in TV and radio
interviews and reports.
Following
the success of the first ‘Expert Women Day’ that was held in London
last month, four further events are now planned for Salford, Glasgow
(which will host women from Northern Ireland as well), Cardiff and
London, bringing the total number of women trained to 130.
The BBC
Academy, working with Broadcast Magazine, recently selected 30 women
with specialist knowledge in Science, History, Politics, Business,
Engineering, Architecture and Technology, from over 2,000 applicants,
for a day of intensive training and networking at its London HQ. One of
the attendees later said, “The training was truly world class – really
well structured, practical and challenging, but also supportive – and
the gathering of top media industry professionals was extremely
impressive.”
Expert Women training day, which was sponsored by
Creative Skillset, provided an introduction to the media and how it
works in four 90-minute sessions. There was also practical training in
being interviewed live in a TV studio, coaching in how to deliver a
piece to camera walking and talking, and live radio discussions, plus a
chance to meet a range of top industry experts who took part in panel
discussions and a networking lunch.
The database of the first 30
specialist women and a further 200, who made it to the second round of
recruitment, has been circulated widely across the industry. Their film
clips will also be uploaded to YouTube.
Several of these women
have already appeared as contributors on or been commissioned by radio
and TV programmes: Sally Marlow, Alcohol and Addiction Expert, has gone
from ‘trainee’ to Today Programme reporter in just six weeks. She has
been commissioned by the programme to produce a report on alcohol
addiction, which will be broadcast before the end of February. Tina
Miller, sociologist, has appeared on Woman’s Hour; Charlotte Connelly, a
Curator of the Science Museum, contributed to the forthcoming The Last
Word; Alison Baily, political analyst, appeared on BBC Radio Oxford; and
Katherine Woolf, Lecturer in Medical Education, appeared on GMT with
Zeinab Badawi on BBC World News.
(Source : BBC Media Centre)
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