Sally Bowman Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Reporting on environmental and rural affairs for TV, Online and radio.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Lead the regional team producing award-winning current affairs, features and specials for BBC One England and BBC One network, BBC Two and BBC Four. Awards include RTS Best Current Affairs Programme (Investigating Sports Direct) and Best Current Affairs Feature (Boots: Pharmacists Under Pressure) • Editorial and managerial responsibility for 54 Inside Out films a year broadcast regionally, nationally and online over 18 episodes each year• Achieved 22% budget savings through redeployment, multi-skilling and transformation of workflow • Worked on digital commissioning strategy to ensure Inside Out stories, originally seen by tens of thousands on television, reached online audiences in their millions• Conceived, directed and project managed creative awaydays with external speakers for more than 100 current affairs staff around England. Resulting reappraisal of current affairs content triggered new funding to embed digital producers with each team• Volunteered as England editorial lead on media asset management for all Inside Out teams. Worked with technical project team to develop robust and responsive content production workflows across England• Lead on editorial content/compliance and BBC resources for Politics East Midlands (produced by an independent production company) including special debates with editorially balanced audiences• Commission and develop new and existing independent companies to make documentaries and specials for BBC One, Two and Four. As executive producer, ensure they meet standards and criteria • Line manage and develop 8 staff members to ensure training and skills meet evolving business need• Produced, directed and self-shot four episodes ‘ob-doc’ The Real Peak Practice, BBC Two

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Led team of 70 journalistic and operational staff responsible for bulletins and nightly flagship 1830 programme, BBC East Midlands Today• Restructured newsroom to introduce multi-skilling for both journalists and operational staff, improving creativity, planning and value for money. East Midlands won a reputation for leading the way in these areas • Relaunched BBC East Midlands Today with a new set, back projectors and graphics• Responsible for budget of more than £5 million• Won Ruby award for launch of user generated content from “community correspondents”

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Specialist correspondent tasked with producing original stories and exclusive content on developments within the areas of education and family for both radio and television• Provided expertise in these areas for all platforms including briefing notes and two ways. Regularly produced programme leads and in-depth features • Trained with Michael Rosenblum to self-shoot and edit (Personal Digital Production) and selected as filmmaker to showcase PDP for BBC Director General, Greg Dyke• Established first local bureau in Derby as a ground-breaking new way of working

• Provided production expertise to BBC’s research and development team • Challenged to research the impact of experimental software designed to personalise long-form factual television• Responsible for design of tender process followed by selection of independent production house and development of key research questions for pilot project • Executive Producer and observant participant for the BBC's first object-based media personalised documentary, Instagramification. Conducted additional research embedded with BBC Click as they created their first fully interactive programme, Click 1000• Produced in-depth 40-page research report for distribution to top level BBC strategists • Completed Master of Research degree (Digital Media) at the University of the West of England including 140-page dissertation. Awarded Distinction• Panellist for “The Future of Storytelling” Digital Cities event hosted by Creative England• Co-author of IBC 2020 paper "The Impact of New Forms of Media on Production Tools and Practices"

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Presenter and reporter for Central News Tonight-- often live on location for lead item • Major national stories covered included exclusives on child-killers Beverly Allitt and Robert Black, flooding, RAF deployments over Bosnia, closure of coal mines• Produced award-winning documentary 24 Hours with focus on officer training at RAF Cranwell

Carlisle, England, United Kingdom

• Anchor for ITV’s most popular regional news programme Lookaround • Reporter for one or two news films a day from various locations across England, the Scottish Borders and the Isle of Man, involving three distinct legal systems.• Live reporter for ITV Telethon 1993• Regular producer of long-form films for current affairs programme, Wide Angle

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

• On screen reporter for UK's most popular daily live magazine programme working with various teams on subjects ranging from infertility to dating sites• Presented the two-hour live studio programme with Ross Kelly when main hosts, Richard and Judy, not available

Hong Kong Sar

• Co-anchor live nightly programme co-produced by CNN and Asia Television • Live interviews with politicians, business people and critical members of the public • Hosted live debate day after Tiananmen Square massacre

Hong Kong Sar

• First job in TV. Began as a researcher and scriptwriter and ended up in front of camera as co-host and producer of new weekly entertainment magazine • Celebrity interviews included Bob Hope, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Robert DeNiro, and Barry Humphries• Scripted, presented and produced music, sports/Olympics and live charity programmes• Owned production company working in the corporate sector, producing films about food production in Thailand, China and Indonesia

Mres (Digital Media), Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia, Distinction

American Studies (History)

American Studies (History)