Interviews – Media – Tom Moloney
Tom Moloney has been promoted to chief executive officer of Emap USA, the US’s leading publisher of specialist magazines. We asked Moloney what excites him about his new job and for his strategy for success
Interviews – Media – Henry Martinez
Henry Martinez is responsible for all Discovery Networks’ cable channels in Latin America and Iberia. He was born in Cuba and grew up in Colombia and Brazil. He majored in communications at Los Angeles’ Pepperdine University, before going on to do an MBA at the University of Miami in Florida
Interviews – Media – Clive Jones
Carlton Television chief executive Clive Jones, 51, started out in the TV industry 25 years ago. He worked for ITV companies Yorkshire Television, TVAM and TVS before arriving at Carlton. The company has received government approval for its proposed £8 billion merger with rival media firm United News & Media. Jones reflects on how UK
Interviews – Media – Peter Howarth
Peter Howarth, 35, has been UK editor of Esquire magazine for the past three years. He trod an unconventional path into journalism, reaching the editor’s desk via the Paris catwalk. He began his journalistic career by writing freelance magazine features. We asked him about his job and what advice he would give aspiring journalists
Interviews – Media – Joan Lofts
Joan Lofts recently moved from her position as a consultant with Children’s ITV to become the new director of broadcasting at ITV2, the cable and digital entertainment channel launched by ITV in late 1998. We caught up with her and asked how a lowly ITN researcher made it to a senior position in the new digital
Interviews – Media – Pippa Wicks
Pippa Wicks, 37, is chief executive of FT Knowledge, a recently created division of UK media company Pearson that is charged with creating online learning programmes aimed at schools, colleges and universities around the world. Wicks was recently chosen to be one of the faces for the current exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, Management
Interviews – Media – David Bell
David Bell is media giant Pearson plc’s director for people and chairman of the Financial Times. He tells us that the best journalists are inquisitive, individualistic and therefore ‘somewhat irritating’. Bell talks about his own career both as a writer and a recruiter and gives tips on how to land a job at Pearson
Interviews – Media – Richard Tait
Richard Tait is editor in chief of ITN, the London-based company that produces news programmes for broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. ITN also provides radio and online news services, operates pan-European 24-hour news channel EuroNews and is gearing up to launch its own UK TV rolling news service. Tait came relatively late
Interviews – Media – Sham Sandhu
Sham Sandhu, 28, has been promoted from development planner at BBC1 to the newly created post of head of new media and new channels for BBC Production – the corporation’s programme making company. His brief is to boost the directorate’s output for the BBC’s digital, UKTV, online and interactive services. His role will involve working
Interviews – Media – Abigail Chisman
Abigail Chisman has been promoted from editor of Vogue Online, to editor of publishing company Conde Nast’s entire online operations. Cambridge University graduate Chisman, a self-confessed, champagne-quaffing socialite, studied fashion journalism before landing her first job at Conde Nast. We asked her about her new job and what the future holds
Interviews – Media – Alastair Stewart
Broadcaster Alastair Stewart might have been Chancellor of the Exchequer or a real-life Rumpole of the Bailey had fate not intervened and directed him towards a career in television. He reveals some of the high points of his journalistic career and gives some tips on how to get ahead in television
Interviews – Media – Michael Prescott
Michael Prescott is political editor of The Sunday Times where he has been a journalist for more than ten years. Educated at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, he then went on to do a degree in journalism at the Center for Journalism Studies, Cardiff University. He lives in Islington, with his wife Rachel Storm –
Interviews – Media – Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker is the Financial Times‘ bureau chief in Washington, where he lives with his wife and three daughters in American University Park. The combination of his exhaustive research and lucid style has given him an enviable reputation as an economic expert on both sides of the Atlantic. We caught up with him in the
Interviews – Media – Amanda Farnsworth
Amanda Farnsworth, 35, has recently taken on a new role in BBC News, as planning editor for the whole of television. She was formerly deputy editor of the BBC’s respected TV current affairs programme Newsnight. Here she gives us a few tips on how to get a foot in the door at the BBC and how
Interviews – Media – Jane Frost
Jane Frost, is the BBC’s controller, corporate marketing and was behind the much-lauded corporate promo Perfect Day. Jane says she believes in the BBC so much she wants to ‘grab people and tell them about it’. Her advice to graduates interested in a career in marketing is that if you like people there isn’t a
Interviews – Media – Andrea Coleman
Andrea Coleman, 22, is an editorial assistant for Institutional Finance at Financial Times Business, a division of the The Financial Times that covers newsstand and trade publications such as The Investors Chronicle
Interviews – Media – Ruth Whippman
Ruth Whippman, 26, has worked for the News and Current Affairs department at the BBC as a broadcast journalist for the last two and a half years, and is about to start a new job as an assistant producer on Back to the Floor. She talks to us about the delights of freelancing, and the
Interviews – Media – Martha Hillier
We interviewed Martha Hillier of the BBC in January 2001 when she worked as an Associate Development Producer in BBC Radio Drama. Now 3 years later, we decided to re-interview Martha to see what has happened to her media career and if she’s any closer to her 5 year ambition of producing TV drama, script
Interviews – Media – Nigel Smith
Nigel Smith has been appointed to track down new comedy talent for UK commercial TV producer and broadcaster Carlton Television. He was offered the job after successfully producing a three-week sitcom festival for terrestrial station Channel 4. Here, the former local newspaper reporter and busker talks to us about the world of TV comedy, and offers
Interviews – Media – Brad Rees
Brad Rees enjoys working his socks off. Rees, the former new media editor for Express Newspapers, has just swapped one hectic dotcom job for another. He has recently been appointed senior producer at Sports.com after spending seven months at rival online outlet Sportal. He describes the change as moving from ‘hard work’ to ‘seriously hard