The Panellists
- Peter Barron, editor of Newsnight. He is a producer, filmmaker and programme editor.
- Peter Bennett-Jones, founder and chairman of PBJ Management and Tiger Aspect Group, one of the UK’s lead film and TV production companies.
Brent Hoberman, founder and executive chairman of mydeco. He was the co-founder and chief executive of lastminute.com. He is a non-executive chairman of Guardian Media Group. - Tessa Jowell, minister for the Olympics and London. She spent seven years as culture secretary and oversaw the setting-up of Ofcom, the birth of Freeview and ITV and the renewal of the BBC’s royal charter.
- Siobhan Kenny, director of communications at Harper Collins UK. She worked as vice-president of communications at Walt Disney TV. She oversaw the launch of High School Musical and Hannah Montana.
- Andrew Neil, publisher of Press Holdings Group. He is the former editor of the Sunday Times and presents the Daily Politics on BBC’s This Week.
- Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He was chair of the Commission for Racial Equality. He works in both broadcast journalism and politics.
- Chris Powell, chairman of Nesta.
- Janine Gibson, executive editor of guardian.co.uk and editor-in-chief of MediaGuardian.
- Jane Martinson, editor of MediaGuardian.
Women in the Top 100
There are 18 women in the list. The roles of the women are:
- Controller
- Chief executive
- Chairman
- Director
- Controller of film and drama
- Corporate marketing director
- Head of marketing
- Director of vision
- Editor
- Head of E4
- Commissioning editor
- Digital champion
- Co-founder
- Actor
18% of the list is female, while 82% are males. This shows that males are more influential than females in the media industry, which would effect the UK as the media is very powerful in shaping society. The views of these powerful males would the the views that are being represented and these views would become normal to the public.
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