Steve Hewlett

Steve will be speaking at

• Main session: Scale, Risk & Investment – how do we build business capacity? - Tue 27th Oct at 16:15
• Copyright in the digital age - Tue 27th Oct at 17:15

About Steve

Steve Hewlett is currently a Guardian Columnist and broadcasting consultant whose clients have included Tiger Aspect, the Guardian Media Group, Ofcom, DCMS, Channel 4, BSkyB and New South Wales FTO. He also runs Big Pictures Ltd, a television production Company with commissions from Channel 4, the BBC and the PBS Network in the USA. He is visiting Professor of Journalism and Broadcast policy at Salford University He is also a regular contributor to and presenter of programmes on Radio 4 and Five Live and now presents Radio 4’s weekly Media Show
Steve started as a researcher on BBC Nationwide in 1981 before going on to produce a number of series for Channel 4 in the mid-eighties, including The Friday Alternative and Diverse Reports. In 1987 he began working on factual programmes at the BBC and in 1990 he became producer and then Editor of BBC One documentary strand Inside Story. From 1995 to 1997, Steve was editor of Current Affairs flagship Panorama and Executive Editor of Special Projects. He was Executive Producer of the first two series of Children’s Hospital as well as The Skipper, Rough Justice, States of Terror and The Diamond Empire.
Steve took over as Director of Programmes, Carlton Television, in September 1998, having previously been Head of Factual Programmes and Features at Channel 4.  He became Managing Director of Carlton Productions in January 2001 with responsibility for Carlton TV Productions, Planet 24 and Action Time. He left ITV at the time of the Granada/Carlton merger in 2003.
He is the Chair of DocFest – the Sheffield International Documentary festival, a board member at Screen Yorkshire and a fellow of the Royal Television Society.