LSE Media
Group - networking event with Jana Bennett
Tuesday 27 October 2009
The
LSE Media Group continued its highly successful
series of networking events, which so far this year have
featured guest speakers
Richard Porter and
Charlie Beckett, by welcoming
Jana Bennett, director of BBC Vision, back to the
School.
Jana completed her MSc International Relations at LSE in
1978, and her successful career at the BBC began a year
later as a news trainee. Today she heads up BBC Vision, with
responsibility for BBC Television and Programme
Commissioning, across TV and broadband.
Her topic for the evening was 'Not Dead, but Different:
Public Service Broadcasting in the 21st Century -
safeguarding the cultural commons'; for a full transcript,
please see the
BBC Press Office site.
The speech was picked up by the
The Guardian,
Broadcast and
Digital Spy, and reported on
Journalism.co.uk by former LSE Media Group chair, John
Mair (BSc Sociology 1972).
The event was produced by LSE Media Group committee
member Jimmy Tam (BSc Social Anthropology 2006), who is
currently a BBC graduate trainee.
