Helen Boaden (b. 1 March 1956 in Colchester, Essex, England) is the current director of BBC News, the world’s biggest broadcast news operation. Boaden controls all BBC news output along with current affairs documentaries, including programmes such as Newsnight and Panorama. is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other places with the same name, see Colchester (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of Essex, see Essex (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... BBC News is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporations news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22:40 and 23:20 on weekdays on BBC Two. ... Panorama is a long-running current affairs documentary series on BBC television, launched on 11 November 1953 and focusing on investigative journalism. ...

Education

Boaden attended the Colchester County High School for Girls, before gaining a BA Hons in English Literature at the University of Sussex. In 1999, she gained an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Colchester County High School is a secondary school in Colchester for girls. ... A B.A. issued from the University of Tennessee. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... The University of Sussex (also known colloquially as Sussex Uni) is an English campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is four miles from Brighton. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... The Wharton School Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

Career

Boaden started her career as a journalist with the New York radio station WBAI in 1979. On her return to the UK, she took a course in Radio Journalism at the London College of Printing (now the London College of Communication). After a spell at Radio Tees and Radio Aire, she joined the BBC in 1983 as a news producer with Radio Leeds. From there, she joined BBC Radio 4 as a reporter, then editor (in 1991), of File on 4. Boaden worked from the BBC in Manchester as a presenter for Woman's Hour and later presented other documentaries for Radio 4, and also for the Brass Tacks political programme on BBC Two. This article is about the state. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... Broadcast journalism refers to television news and radio news, as well as the online news outlets of broadcast affiliates. ... London College of Communication The London College of Communication (formerly the London College of Printing) is one of the five constituent colleges of the University of the Arts London. ... 95 VHF Stereo and 257 metres (1170 KHz) medium wave . ... Radio Aire consists of several tropical regions Categories: United Kingdom broadcasting stubs | Leeds | Radio stations in the United Kingdom | Yorkshire media ... BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. ... old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... A current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... Womans Hour is a magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ...

In 1997, she became the BBC's Head of Business Programmes, then in 1998 she became Head of Current Affairs - the first female to hold this position. She was Controller of Radio 4 from March 2000 until September 20, 2004, being superseded by Mark Damazer. She became Controller of BBC7 in 2002, when the station commenced. She superseded Richard Sambrook as director of BBC News in 2004.^[1] Mark Damazer (1955-) is the controller of Radio 4 and BBC 7 in the United Kingdom. ... BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ... Richard Sambrook (born 24 April 1956) is the Director of the BBC World Service and Global News, and former Director of BBC News and BBC Sport. ...

She appeared on the 35th anniversary edition of Just A Minute in 2003 as a guest subject setter. The subject she set was "Why Just a Minute has lasted so long". Ms Boaden also sacked news reader Moira Stewart from BBC News in 2007 for being "too old" (she was 57) to much public outcry Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game which has been running continuously since its first broadcast on December 22, 1967. ...

Awards and honours

Boaden has won Sony Awards for a programme she made on AIDS in Africa, and bullying in Feltham Young Offenders Institution when at File on 4. Radio 4 won the Gold Award for Station of the Year in 2003 and 2004. In 1990, Boaden won awards from the Industrial Society for her work on safety standards in the oil industry. She has honorary degrees from Suffolk College, the University of Sussex, and the University of York. She is on the committee of the Sony Radio Academy. The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys), started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. ... For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... A current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ... In sociology, industrial society refers to a society with a modern societal structure. ... Suffolk University is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, situated on Beacon Hill. ... The University of Sussex (also known colloquially as Sussex Uni) is an English campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is four miles from Brighton. ... This article is about the British university. ...

Other

Boaden has a holiday home in Yorkshire. She is married to Stephen Burley, who works for the Evening Standard. Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...

References

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External links

• BBC Press Office biography
• BBC News blog
• Honorary degree from Suffolk College in 2002
• Receiving Doctor of Letters from University of Sussex on July 18th 2003
• Receiving an honorary degree from Greg Dyke, Chancellor of the University of York on December 3rd 2004