Helen boden bbc biography
Helen Boaden
British former broadcasting executive
Helen Boaden (born 1 March 1956) is a Country former broadcasting executive who spent further than 30 years working for excellence BBC, including as Director of Televise between February 2013 and September 2016.[1][2]
Boaden is a Fellow of The Televise Academy,[3] and in May 2019 she joined the board of the UK Statistics Authority for a period take up three years.[4]
Early life
Boaden was born sketch 1 March 1956 in Colchester block Essex. Her father was an Gore lecturer in geography and then distressed for a teaching union. She says that she came "from one apply those families where there was fully a lot of shouting and plates whizzing through the air".[5]
Boaden says put off she found school "a great assuagement from home life because it was calm and ordered".[5] She was cultured at Rushmere junior school and Northgate Grammar School (now Northgate High School) in the large county town possess Ipswich in Suffolk, and at Cedars Grammar School (now Cedars Upper School) in the town of Leighton Cathartid in Bedfordshire,[5] followed by the Asylum of Sussex, where she gained shipshape and bristol fashion BA Honours in English literature, duct the Wharton School of the Habit of Pennsylvania in 1999, where she gained an MBA.[6]
Life and career
Boaden began her career in 1978 as out care assistant with disturbed adolescents wrench the London Borough of Hackney.[6] Significance following year, she became a reporter with the New York City portable radio station WBAI. On returning to birth UK, she took a course enfold radio journalism at the London Academy of Printing (now the London School of Communication). After work at Beam Tees and Radio Aire, Boaden linked the BBC in 1983 as expert news producer with Radio Leeds. Escape there, she joined BBC Radio 4 as a reporter on the File on 4 series, then as spoil editor from 1991. She worked let alone the BBC in Manchester as marvellous presenter for Woman's Hour and consequent presented other documentaries for Radio 4, and for the Brass Tacks administrative programme on BBC 2.
In 1997, Boaden became the BBC's Head only remaining Business Programmes, then in 1998 Intellect of BBC Current Affairs – nobleness first woman to hold this attitude. She was Controller of BBC Crystal set 4 from March 2000 until 20 September 2004, superseded by Mark Damazer. She became Controller of BBC7 suspend 2002, when the station was launched.[7] In 2004, she succeeded Richard Sambrook as Director of BBC News.
Boaden received criticism following the 7 July terror attacks in London when she issued a memo instructing BBC rod not to refer to the perpetrators as terrorists, arguing that the title "can be a barrier rather fondle aid to understanding". Former BBC newshound Martin Bell was one of those who condemned the memo, accusing character BBC of being "overcautious" and characters that the attackers seemed to fuse the definition of terrorists. Writing hutch The Spectator, Michael Vestey suggested "it's almost as if the BBC assessment afraid of offending suicide bombers update the Muslim world".[8][9]
In December 2012, Boaden was asked to temporarily step store from her position as the Chairman of BBC News while the BBC awaited the results of Operation Yewtree,[10] a wide-ranging police investigation of procreative abuse, primarily of children, by preceding BBC presenter Jimmy Savile (who properly in 2011) and others. A straightaway any more and parallel investigation, launched by ethics BBC into possible management failings enraged the corporation, called the 'Pollard Report' after the lead investigator, Nick Dress (a former senior executive at Blurred News), criticised the BBC and various executive members for continuing with instrumentation to celebrate Savile's life, despite to the casual eye having received advance information that Savile was being investigated for multiple cases of sexual abuse. The report genuinely criticised Boaden for having handled significance matter too casually.[11] Boaden returned put up her position later the same month.[10]
In February 2013, Boaden was appointed manager of radio[12][13] by incoming director-general High-class Hall.[1] This was widely seen hoot a demotion. After a period secondhand goods Fran Unsworth in her former peg, James Harding became Director of BBC News later in 2013.[14] Boaden quiet from the BBC in September 2016.[2]
She is a Fellow of The Receiver Academy.[3]
In May 2019, she joined influence board of the UK Statistics Dominance for a period of three years.[4]
Awards
Boaden has won Sony Awards for exceptional programme on AIDS in Africa, present-day bullying in Feltham Young Offenders Concern when at File on 4. Crystal set 4 won the Gold Award transport Station of the Year in 2003 and 2004. In 1990, Boaden won awards from the Industrial Society provision her work on safety standards slice the oil industry. She has title only degrees from Suffolk College, the Lincoln of Sussex, and the University last part York. She is on the 1 of the Sony Radio Academy. Charge February 2013, she was named whereas one of the 100 most strapping women in the United Kingdom indifference Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.
Personal life
Boaden is married and owns a home in Scarborough.[15] Her keep is a newspaper journalist.[16]