All International Women's Day articles
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Industry TrendsGender Diversity in Broadcast Technology: How are Vendors and Organisations Responding?
A lack of gender diversity continues to be a problem in the field of broadcast engineering. In part one of this article, we focused on the working environment for women employed by broadcasters, but what are vendors and industry organisations doing to address this imbalance?
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Industry Trends
IWD: Gender diversity in broadcast technology: More needs to be done
International Women’s Day: Technology has a reputation for being solely the domain of white men, and broadcast engineering is no exception. In fact, historically, it has had less gender diversity than other technology industries. But in this era of increasing focus on diversity, how is broadcasting doing?
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Industry Trends
Craft Leaders: Cinematographer Ari Wegner: Ways of seeing
The Academy has only ever nominated two female cinematographers in its 94-year history. This month, Ari Wegner ACS could make history by being the first to win. IBC365 spoke with her.
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Executive Interviews
Setting the standard: Barbara Lange, SMPTE
At the end of the year, SMPTE executive director Barbara Lange will conclude her 12-year stewardship of the industry’s premier standards body to follow the two new career strands of helping young women find careers in STEM and exploring sustainability in the sector.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Sinead Greenaway, UKTV
Sinead Greenaway took an unconventional route to her role as chief technology and operations officer at UKTV, where she has led a technology transformation at the UK broadcaster.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Cara Sheppard, Twickenham Studios
After a majorly disrupted 2020, production in the UK looks to be well and truly back on track and Twickenham Studios, led by managing director Cara Sheppard, is keen capitalise.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Lucy Cooper, Union VFX
IWD: Union VFX managing director and Access VFX and Animated Women board member Lucy Cooper reflects on running a visual effects facility during Covid times, the outlook for VFX, and what more the industry could do to attract and retain diverse talent.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, editor
The multi-award winning editor of Three Girls, The Crown and Death on the Nile speaks with IBC365 about her journey to becoming one of Hollywood’s most sought after editors.
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Industry Trends
Q&A: The role of mentoring in helping women to Rise
IWD: As part of its efforts to boost gender diversity within the broadcast tech and services sector, in 2018 Rise launched a mentor scheme to help women advance their careers. IBC365 spoke with two graduates of the 2019 programme about its impact on their careers.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Anna Chanduvi, Facebook
IWD: As Facebook’s lead for sports media partnerships across the EMEA region, Anna Chanduvi works with broadcasters, OTT platforms and digital publishers to help them drive engagement, subscriptions and monetization via Facebook and Instagram.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Tami Reiker, cinematographer
IWD: In the first in a series of interviews with inspirational female leaders to mark International Women’s Day, Tami Reiker ASC reveals how she made history as the first woman to win an American Society of Cinematographers Award.
