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Helen Boaden is a British media executive and former Director of BBC Radio. She was born on 1 March 1956 in Borough of Colchester, United Kingdom. She attended the University of York and graduated with a degree in English Literature. Boaden began her career in journalism in 1979, working for the BBC as a reporter and producer. She then moved to BBC Radio 4 in 1984, where she worked as a producer and editor. In 1994, she was appointed Head of Radio 4, and in 2000 she became the first female Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live. In 2004, Boaden was appointed Director of BBC Radio, a position she held until 2013. During her tenure, she oversaw the launch of BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC 6 Music, and BBC Asian Network. She also oversaw the expansion of BBC Radio 4 Extra and the launch of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. In 2013, Boaden was appointed Director of BBC News, a position she held until 2018. During her tenure, she oversaw the launch of BBC News at Ten and the expansion of BBC World News. Boaden is currently the Chair of the British Library Board. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. As of 2021, Helen Boaden's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.

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Occupation Director of BBC Radio
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 1 March 1956
Birthday 1 March
Birthplace Colchester, Essex, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2019

Boaden received criticism following the July 7 terror attacks in London when she issued a memo instructing BBC staff not to refer to the perpetrators as terrorists, arguing that the term "can be a barrier rather than aid to understanding". Former BBC reporter Martin Bell was one of those who condemned the memo, accusing the BBC being "overcautious" and noting that the attackers seemed to meet the definition of terrorists. Writing in The Spectator, Michael Vestey suggested "it’s almost as if the BBC is afraid of offending suicide bombers in the Muslim world".

In May 2019 she joined the board of the UK Statistics Authority for a period of three years.

2013

In February 2013, Boaden was appointed director of radio by incoming director-general Tony Hall. This was widely seen as a demotion. After a period with Fran Unsworth in her former post, James Harding became Director of BBC News later in 2013. Boaden resigned from the BBC in September 2016.

2012

In December 2012, Boaden was asked to temporarily step down from her position as the Director of BBC News while the BBC awaited the results of Operation Yewtree, a wide-ranging police investigation of sexual abuse, primarily of children, by former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile (who died in 2011) and others. A second and parallel investigation, launched by the BBC into possible management failings at the Corporation, called the Pollard Report after the lead investigator, Nick Pollard (a former senior executive at Sky News), criticised the BBC and several executive members for continuing with plans to celebrate Savile's life, despite apparently having received advanced information that Savile was being investigated for multiple cases of sexual abuse. The report explicitly criticised Boaden for having handled the matter too casually. Boaden returned to her position later the same month.

2004

In 1997, Boaden became the BBC's Head of Business Programmes, then in 1998 Head of BBC Current Affairs – the first woman to hold this position. She was Controller of BBC Radio 4 from March 2000 until 20 September 2004, superseded by Mark Damazer. She became Controller of BBC7 in 2002, when the station was launched. In 2004, she succeeded Richard Sambrook as Director of BBC News.

2003

Boaden has won Sony Awards for a programme on AIDS in Africa, and bullying in Feltham Young Offenders Institution when at File on 4. Radio 4 won the Gold Award for Station of the Year in 2003 and 2004. In 1990, Boaden won awards from the Industrial Society for her work on safety standards in the oil industry. She has honorary degrees from Suffolk College, the University of Sussex, and the University of York. She is on the committee of the Sony Radio Academy. In February 2013, she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

1999

Boaden says that she found school "a great relief from home life because it was calm and ordered". She was educated at Rushmere junior school and Northgate Grammar School (now Northgate High School) in the large county town of Ipswich in Suffolk, and at Cedars Grammar School (now Cedars Upper School) in the town of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, followed by the University of Sussex, where she gained a BA Honours in English Literature and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, where she gained an MBA.

1978

Boaden began her career in 1978 as a Care Assistant with disturbed adolescents in the London Borough of Hackney. The following year, she became a journalist with the New York City radio station WBAI. On returning to the UK, she took a course in Radio Journalism at the London College of Printing (now the London College of Communication). After Radio Tees and Radio Aire, she joined the BBC in 1983 as a news producer with Radio Leeds. From there, she joined BBC Radio 4 as a reporter on the File on 4 series, then as its Editor from 1991. Boaden worked from the BBC in Manchester as a presenter for Woman's Hour and later presented other documentaries for Radio 4, and for the Brass Tacks political programme on BBC 2.

1956

Helen Boaden (born 1 March 1956) is a former British broadcasting executive who spent more than 30 years working for the BBC including as Director of Radio between February 2013 and September 2016.

Boaden was born on 1 March 1956 in Colchester in Essex. Her father was an FE lecturer in Geography and then worked for a teaching union. She says that she came "from one of those families where there was quite a lot of shouting and plates whizzing through the air".