All Disability articles – Page 23
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FeaturesEd Havard, Channel 4
Widely praised for its Paralympics coverage four years ago, Channel 4 plans to go bigger and better in Rio. Head of TV events Ed Havard tells Miranda Blazeby what’s in store
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CommentImproving diversity will help us make better TV
Attracting brilliant, diverse creative talent is vital if we are to stay on top of our game, says Mark Linsey
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NewsBBC must stretch to hit diversity targets
The BBC has made no progress in improving the diversity of its most senior leaders and will need to make significant gains to hit its 2017 target.
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NewsC4 orders extreme sports disability show
A group of disabled people are set to take on bungee jumping, sky diving and waterskiing in a one-off special for Channel 4.
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CommentWhat did the referendum reveal?
Industry must address how it connects with all parts of the UK
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NewsBest Factual Channel: BBC Four
The channel has held its position as the UK’s highest-rated digital factual offering, with an astounding range of headline-hitting and quietly spectacular single documentaries
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NewsBest Popular Factual Programme: Charlie Hebdo: 3 Days That Shook Paris
Commissioned within two months of the Paris attacks of January 2015, Ursula Macfarlane’s moving film mixed interviews, news footage and eyewitnesses’ own mobile phone recordings to piece together the shocking events.
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NewsBest Content Partnership or AFP: Formula E Season 2 Digital
Working with world feed partner Aurora Media, plus brands including BMW, Visa and Microsoft, Little Dot distributed race content to social platforms and created a daily schedule that included technology explanations, driver interviews, lists and infographics, celebrity-led content, behind-the-scenes material and news.
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CommentAutism is not just what you see on your television screen
Channel 4 gave me the chance to highlight the spectrum of the condition, says Olivia Hale
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FeaturesNotes On Blindness: review
It is often said that the loss of sight can lead to a heightened acuity in the other senses.
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FeaturesGoggledocs
Five of the UK’s top TV documentary-makers watched C4’s factual output in the first week of February. Here they deliver their verdicts in the style of the channel’s hit series Gogglebox
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NewsDiversity drive faces boycott
Broadcasters have come under pressure to be more transparent about diversity data on individual programmes as part of the Creative Diversity Network’s monitoring initiative.
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NewsDan Brooke: TV 'hideously able-bodied'
Channel 4 diversity guru Dan Brooke has slammed TV as “hideously able-bodied” as the broadcaster bids to increase the volume of disabled talent in the industry.
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NewsBBC4 gears up for diversity push
BBC4 boss Cassian Harrison has made boosting the channel’s diversity a top priority, as Ofcom draws up plans to hold broadcasters’ feet to the fi re on the issue through more regular reporting.
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CommentIs C4 meeting its remit?
As the government runs the rule over privatising Channel 4, Broadcast publishes extracts from a new book in which industry figures offer personal reflections on the challenges it faces
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NewsBBC plans diverse university push
The BBC is looking to hire candidates from a wider range of universities with a new recruitment process designed to ensure its workforce reflects modern Britain.
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NewsBBC targets 50:50 gender split
Women will form 50% of the BBC’s overall staff and leadership team by 2020 as part of a raft of diversity targets which also include its first LGBT target.
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CommentThe BBC is working hard to reflect the UK’s diversity
There is much to do, but it’s wrong to suggest progress hasn’t been made, says Asif Hasan
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NewsBoosting diversity to be prominent in BBC charter
The government has confirmed that diversity will feature “prominently” in the BBC’s new charter amid pressure from campaigners on the issue.