All Freelancers articles – Page 31
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NewsCorrie and Emmerdale directors demand better pay
Directors UK has demanded pay rises for 40 freelance directors working on ITV soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
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NewsBBC Academy plans freelance drama training
BBC Academy is to host two training days for drama freelancers in Birmingham and Salford later this year.
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NewsMedia Parents offers Edinburgh TV Festival tickets
It is the final day for freelancers who are struggling to balance the demands of working in television and childcare to apply for free entry to the Edinburgh TV Festival.
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NewsSumners shuts MediaCityUK base and calls in liquidators
Sumners has shut its Salford facility and called in a firm of liquidators.
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Behind The ScenesBlinging Up Baby, C5
A killer title landed us the commission, but the hard part was still to come says Ian Lamarra
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NewsChallenge Fund: Skillset tells industry to ‘use it or lose it’
Creative Skillset has urged producers to tap in to a multi-million pound fund to help train staff – or risk losing the government investment.
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FeaturesMasterclass: Making safety less of a chore
Health and safety training is becoming easier thanks to shorter courses and more online options
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NewsCreative industries fund 300 BAME interns
300 black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) youngsters are to secure internships in the creative industries after the government pledged £4m to boost diversity.
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CommentA seismic change for British TV
Scrapping BBC quotas may be a double-edged sword for indies, says Broadcast editor Chris Curtis
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NewsBBC signals end of quotas
The BBC plans to tear up production quotas and “liberate” in-house teams to pitch to other broadcasters in the biggest “breaking open” of the corporation in its 92-year history.
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FeaturesVFX: a better working model
A mismatch between academic courses and skills require is inhibiting graduates
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The Broadcast InterviewTheresa Wise, RTS
The RTS chief executive talks to Robin Parker about overhauling the society’s education brief and nurturing the next generation of TV talent through its new bursary scheme
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NewsOfcom blasted over diversity
Ofcom’s lack of action and transparency on equality monitoring has contributed to the broadcasting industry’s “catastrophic” failure to achieve progress on diversity, according to the UK’s most powerful creative sector unions.
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NewsBBC Academy to host file-delivery training events
The BBC Academy is hosting a series of training events to help producers, production managers, editors and engineers prepare for the upcoming shift to file-based delivery.
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Behind The ScenesDrag Queens Of London, London Live
Making a ten-part ob doc series on a microbudget is not impossible, but you do have to take risks with where you cut corners, says Jason Mitchell.
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NewsTV ‘grossly unfair’ to runners
Runners in the TV industry face low pay and long hours, are poorly treated and lack career progression, according to new research.
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NewsTV runners’ pay and diversity issues exposed
Bectu’s first-ever survey of runners shows that barely any earn enough to live in London and there is a lack of diversity among TV’s junior staff.
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NewsDiversify to offer practical tips to producers
TV execs will benefit from a series of tips about how to improve the diversity of their production teams at a Diversify event to be held next week as part of Creative Week.
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NewsBectu urges ITV to act on US freelancer conditions
Bectu has added to growing pressure on ITV to engage with American trade unions over conditions for non-fiction freelancers in the US.
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NewsEquity demands fairness from BBC
The BBC must distribute casting information for its new dramas more fairly according to actors union Equity.