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Morwen Williams

Director, Media Operations

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Morwen Williams is Director of Media Operations for the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú, leading all the operational field, base and studio teams for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News, Audio, Sports News, Editing and more – a team of more than 950 people.
  • She is responsible for studios in London, Salford’s MediaCityUK and Birmingham, tv and radio OB teams and crews across many bases in the UK.

Biography

Previously Morwen was :

  • Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News’s Director of UK Operations and Head of Newsgathering after switching from journalism to Operations roles.
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News Deputy UK Editor, leading on major special events in the UK and co-ordinating Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News planning of stories.
  • Deputy editor, output editor and producer in Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú regions in London and Manchester, having started as a researcher on Newsroom South East in 1989.
  • Started her journalism career on local newspapers in Croydon after graduating from City University School of Journalism and Newcastle University.

Morwen is also :

  • chair of the WBU (World Broadcasting Union) International Media Connectivity Group, working with other broadcasters to find common solutions in this area.
  • represents the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú on the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) News Committee.
  • a fellow of the Media Transformation Challenge at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
  • a former mentor for RISE Women in Broadcasting (she was RISE inaugural Woman of the Year in 2019) and a Senior fellow of the John Schofield Trust for young journalists.

Expenses and central bookings

Expenses are costs incurred by Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú staff on behalf of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú and claimed through the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's expenses system.

Central bookings are costs incurred on behalf of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú and booked through the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's central bookings system. Both expenses and central bookings are published every three months.

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Gifts and Hospitality Register

Gifts and hospitality may only be accepted in line with Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú policy. Information about gifts and hospitality is published every three months.

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Declaration of personal interests

Staff must make a declaration of their personal and business interests, including any memberships or directorships of public or industry bodies, and any shareholdings, as well as any interests that their immediate families may also have.

A summary is published where there is something to declare and where there is nothing to declare. Occasionally an individual will have something to declare but due to the personal nature of the declaration we do not publish details as to do so would breach the General Data Protection Regulation.

This information is published annually, although if any amendments are made during the year an updated summary will be published if necessary as soon as it is available.

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