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Lis Howell

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Howell joined the City University journalism department as a visiting lecturer in television in 2002, started the postgraduate programme on Television Current Affairs in 2003, later becoming Director of Broadcasting while running both the current affairs and broadcast journalism courses. The City
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journalist was given access to production meetings she was quoted in the press for saying that television presenters needed to be fanciable. Soon after, in February 1993, with a financial crisis hitting the new channel, she was sacked by the newly installed chairman, Greg Dyke.
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broadcasting courses turn out 200 postgraduates a year from their domestic courses and another 90 international students. Most domestic students get production jobs within the established news broadcasters (for instance,
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in 1999 and has chaired a judging panel for the Royal Television Society's journalism award from 2006. She has also been a judge for, among others, the UK's Muslim News Awards for Excellence. She is a member of
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special reports. She has also written articles about her work – for instance, launching a website and becoming a university lecturer – and been quoted on the skills needed by television presenters.
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Howell is a member of the Local Network TV Committee, chaired by Greg Dyke, which was set up in October 2010 to look into the creation of local television channels. She was chair of the
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Howell has written six murder mystery novels, drawing on her experience as a television director, teacher, church-goer and member of Bart's Choir and Bart's Chamber Choir in London.
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The following year she worked her way back into television, by suggesting to Border TV a programme on a mother and her baby living in a remote country area, which led to a series,
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Two months later (April 1993) Howell became director of programmes at the newly launched satellite television channel
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from 1981 to 1984. She then decided to quit journalism, opting to become the village postmistress at
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As a media commentator, Howell has appeared on several television and radio programmes, such as
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She quit in 1999 over policy issues and went to Harvard Business School to take the
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She was appointed director of programmes in 1992 for breakfast television channel
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She became Managing Editor of Sky News later that year and was sent to
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Howell was born in Liverpool in 1951 and was educated at the
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and soon after was offered a reporting job by Radio Leeds.
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City, University of London
journalism department
Liverpool Institute for Girls
University of Bristol
Leeds Trinity & All Saints
Border Television
Granada Television
Tyne Tees Television
Mawbray
Royal Television Society
Lockerbie air disaster
Saudi Arabia
first Gulf War
GMTV
Sunday Times
UK Living
Flextech
Living
Trouble
Bravo
Challenge
Advance Management course
BBC
ITV
ITN
Channel Four
Sky News
CNN
BBC Radio 4
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