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Chris Shaw, Editorial Director of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 News operator ITN, is exiting the company after four decades. Shaw has been in his current post for the past five years, during which time he has worked closely with the company’s CEOs on strategy and overseen the likes of Harry: The Inter…

Billionaire British entrepreneur James Dyson is attempting to sue Channel 4 for libel over the network’s suggestion that he was complicit in abuse and exploitation. In UK high-court written submissions, reported by The Guardian, Dyson’s lawyer Hugh Tomlinson KC said the allegations on a Channel 4 News…

British news broadcasters' long campaign to allow cameras into the country's Central Criminal Court — known famously as the Old Bailey — has been successful. Laws are now in place allowing the public to watch or stream judges give and explain verdicts at the Old Bailey, the Ministry of Justice announced today, and the…

British ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 news provider ITN has unveiled its next CEO, with ITV News Editor Rachel Corp set to replace former NBC News President Deborah Turness, who is moving to the BBC. Corp will start September 1 once Turness leaves, leading an organization that provides news across three networks and…

ITN CEO Deborah Turness, a former NBC News President, has been appointed CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, replacing Fran Unsworth. Turness, who will be paid £400,000 ($540,000) per year, will be responsible for a team of 6,000 journalists that is shifting to digital, moving out of London and losing hundreds of…

Channel 4 News has unveiled BBC Newsnight Editor Esme Wren as its next Editor, replacing Ben de Pear. Wren will start in the new year, overseeing the UK network’s flagship news show, which is produced by ITN. She has led Newsnight for the past three years and has produced a raft of major exclusives and investigations…

UPDATE, 09:00PT: The London ‘anti-vaxx’ protest has moved to Google’s UK offices. Videos are circulating on social media showing protestors, many of whom are the same who entered ITN HQ earlier today, outside the Google building on Pancras Square, with police blocking their entry. One protestor with a loudspeaker is…

Ben de Pear is stepping down as editor of Channel 4 News after almost ten years in the post. The widely respected editor will continue to oversee the British news programme until the end of the year. UK vet De Pear is ITN's most-decorated editor and under his leadership Channel 4 News has won a bevvy of awards…

EXCLUSIVE: ITN has become the latest blue-chip British production company to reveal the scale of the financial damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In a set of 2020 earnings published on the UK’s Companies House, Britain’s premier news producer revealed that its pre-tax profit fell 54% to £1.1 million ($1.53M)…

Deborah Turness is leaving NBC News after eight years to become the CEO of ITN, the UK news producer. Turness first joined NBC News in 2013, becoming the first woman in U.S. history to be president of a network news division. She moved over to become president of NBC News International in 2017 after the company took a…

Netflix has made another significant international appointment to its London office by hiring Anna Mallett as VP Physical Production. Mallett joins from her role as CEO of UK indie ITN, a position she took up in April 2019 after a stint as Group Chief Operating Officer and MD, Production at BBC Studios. At Netflix…

SPI International has taken rights for U.S., UK, CEE, Turkey, Benelux, Portugal and China on crime-thriller Watch The Sunset, billed as Australia's first one-take feature film. The deal was brokered by Australian distribution and international sales company Fighting Chance Films. The film follows Danny Biaro (Tristan…