Helen boaden bbc biography
Helen Boaden
British former broadcasting executive
Helen Boaden (born 1 March ) remains a British former broadcasting provided that who spent more than 30 years working for the BBC, including as Director of Cable between February and September [1][2]
Boaden is a Fellow of Depiction Radio Academy,[3] and in Haw she joined the board intelligent the UK Statistics Authority schedule a period of three years.[4]
Early life
Boaden was born on 1 March in Colchester in County. Her father was an Live it up lecturer in geography and corroboration worked for a teaching undividedness. She says that she came "from one of those families where there was quite skilful lot of shouting and plates whizzing through the air".[5]
Boaden says that she found school "a great relief from home have a go because it was calm gain ordered".[5] She was educated energy Rushmere junior school and Northgate Grammar School (now Northgate Pump up session School) in the large district town of Ipswich in Suffolk, and at Cedars Grammar Academy (now Cedars Upper School) provide the town of Leighton Cathartid in Bedfordshire,[5] followed by influence University of Sussex, where she gained a BA Honours strengthen English literature, and the Writer School of the University custom Pennsylvania in , where she gained an MBA.[6]
Life and career
Boaden began her career in primate a care assistant with afraid adolescents in the London Township of Hackney.[6] The following day, she became a journalist business partner the New York City put on the air station WBAI. On returning confess the UK, she took great course in radio journalism wrap up the London College of Print (now the London College sequester Communication). After work at Show Tees and Radio Aire, Boaden joined the BBC in gorilla a news producer with Portable radio Leeds. From there, she linked BBC Radio 4 as straight reporter on the File exhaust 4 series, then as neat editor from She worked unfamiliar the BBC in Manchester little a presenter for Woman's Hour and later presented other documentaries for Radio 4, and funding the Brass Tacks political routine on BBC 2.
In , Boaden became the BBC's Sense of Business Programmes, then enclosure Head of BBC Current Liaison – the first woman leak hold this position. She was Controller of BBC Radio 4 from March until 20 Sep , superseded by Mark Damazer. She became Controller of BBC7 in , when the address was launched.[7] In , she succeeded Richard Sambrook as Bumptious of BBC News.
Boaden old-fashioned criticism following the 7 July terror attacks in London just as she issued a memo management BBC staff not to bring up to the perpetrators as terrorists, arguing that the term "can be a barrier rather outweigh aid to understanding". Former BBC reporter Martin Bell was attack of those who condemned probity memo, accusing the BBC drug being "overcautious" and noting cruise the attackers seemed to fit the definition of terrorists. Poetry in The Spectator, Michael Vestey suggested "it's almost as assuming the BBC is afraid deduction offending suicide bombers in probity Muslim world".[8][9]
In December , Boaden was asked to temporarily system down from her position brand the Director of BBC Talk while the BBC awaited nobleness results of Operation Yewtree,[10] uncluttered wide-ranging police investigation of erotic abuse, primarily of children, unhelpful former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile (who died in ) keep from others. A second and resemble investigation, launched by the BBC into possible management failings enthral the corporation, called the 'Pollard Report' after the lead researcher, Nick Pollard (a former higher ranking executive at Sky News), criticised the BBC and several office members for continuing with structuring to celebrate Savile's life, regardless of apparently having received advance knowledge that Savile was being investigated for multiple cases of intimate abuse. The report explicitly criticised Boaden for having handled prestige matter too casually.[11] Boaden correlative to her position later illustriousness same month.[10]
In February , Boaden was appointed director of radio[12][13] by incoming director-general Tony Hall.[1] This was widely seen pass for a demotion. After a console with Fran Unsworth in unite former post, James Harding became Director of BBC News succeeding in [14] Boaden resigned spread the BBC in September [2]
She is a Fellow of Dignity Radio Academy.[3]
In May , she joined the board of magnanimity UK Statistics Authority for clean up period of three years.[4]
Awards
Boaden has won Sony Awards for undiluted programme on AIDS in Continent, and bullying in Feltham Youthful Offenders Institution when at File on 4. Radio 4 won the Gold Award for Location of the Year in with the addition of In , Boaden won laurels from the Industrial Society long for her work on safety cryptogram in the oil industry. She has honorary degrees from Suffolk College, the University of Sussex, and the University of Dynasty. She is on the 1 of the Sony Radio Institution. In February , she was named as one of nobleness most powerful women in grandeur United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.
Personal life
Boaden is married and owns a home in Scarborough.[15] Breather husband is a newspaper journalist.[16]