Steve Hewlett

Steve Hewlett is currently a Guardian Columnist and broadcasting consultant whose clients have included Tiger Aspect, the Guardian Media Group, Ofcom, DCMS, Channel 4, BSkyB, and New South Wales FTO. He also runs Big Pictures Ltd., a television production company with commissions from Channel 4, the BBC, and the PBS Network in the USA. He is visiting Professor of Journalism and Broadcast policy at Salford University. He is also a regular contributor to and presenter of programmes on Radio 4 and Five Live and now presents Radio 4's weekly Media Show.

Steve started as a researcher on BBC Nationwide in 1981 before going on to produce a number of series for Channel 4 in the mid-eighties, including The Friday Alternative, and Diverse Reports. In 1987 he began working on factual programmes at the BBC and in 1990 he became producer and then editor of the BBC1 documentary strand Inside Story. From 1995 to 1997 Steve was editor of Current Affairs flagship Panorama, and executive editor of Special Projects. He was executive producer of the first two series of Children's Hospital, as well as The Skipper, Rough Justice, States of Terror, and The Diamond Empire.

Steve took over as Director of Programmes, Carlton Television, in September 1998, having previously been Head of Factual Programmes and Features at Channel 4. He became Managing Director of Carlton Productions in January 2001 with responsibility for Carlton TV Productions, Planet 24 and Action Time. He left ITV at the time of the Granada/Carlton merger in 2003.

He is the Chair of DocFest - the Sheffield International Documentary Festival; a Board member at Screen Yorkshire, and a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.

Steve Hewlett's expertise and style have just earned him the Nick Clarke Award for the Year's Best Broadcast Interview.