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Charter Renewal project teams and leaders confirmed
The
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Charter Renewal project is moving forward as teams begin looking
at different issues that will inform the organisation's proposals,
due later this year.
Initially,
there are five major workstreams, which will report to the Charter
Renewal project leaders Roly Keating (Controller, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR) and
Charles Constable (Head of Business Management and Implementation).
Each
team will also have a sponsor from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Executive Committee.
The workstreams and their leaders are:
Changing
World - headed by Mark Friend, Head of Strategy for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News,
will look at social, demographic, economic, cultural and technological
changes that will shape the world in which the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ will operate
in the next 20 years. ExCo sponsors: Andy Duncan (Director Marketing
& Communications) and Ashley Highfield (Director, New Media).
Purposes
- led by Roger Mosey, Head of Television News, will look at how
the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ defines and articulates its purposes for the 21st century.
ExCo sponsor: Mark Byford (Director, World Service).
Services
- led by Susan Denham, Controller of TV Strategy, with Mark Friend,
will explore the kind of programme and service portfolio the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
should have to meet it purposes in a changing world. ExCo sponsors:
to be confirmed.
Shape
- headed by Peter Phillips, Chief Operating Officer for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News,
will start examaining the scope and structure of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ as a modern
business in meeting its public service and commercial responsibilities,
as requested by Government and audiences. ExCo sponsors: John Smith
(Director of Finance) and Glenwyn Benson (Director of Factual &
Learning).
Funding
- jointly led by Zarin Patel, Head of the Licence Fee Unit, and
John Turner, Head of Finance and Commercial Strategy, will look
at the optimal ways of funding the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to meet its responsibilities
and audience expectations. ExCo sponsor: Roger Flynn (Director,
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Ventures).
Roly
Keating said: "This is the start of a fascinating process which
allows the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to ask itself, its audiences, its friends and critics
the really serious questions about its future role in both UK and
global broadcasting.
"Each
team will call on the significant expertise and capabilities we
have throughout the organisation. We will also be seeking the views
of a range of key individuals externally."
Charles
Constable said: "The work these teams will do over the coming months
will inevitably overlap, inform and confront each other's thinking.
We are in a very different environment from the Charter Renewal
campaign of the early 1990s, which will make this process incredibly
challenging.
"We
hope to have the initial framework of our proposals ready by late
Autumn."
The
overall Charter Renewal project is being sponsored by Caroline Thomson,
the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Director of Public Policy and Carolyn Fairbairn, Director
of Strategy. Danielle Nagler is the project manager.
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