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Channel 4 set to announce plan to axe almost 250 jobs

Cut driven by decline in demand for advertising represents about 15% of broadcaster’s full-time workforce

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

With the spectre of job cuts, Channel 4 bosses must be seen to share the pain

Losses look inevitable but the broadcaster could help itself by demonstrating restraint on pay in its upper ranks

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2024

Channel 4 tells staff a round of major job cuts is looming

Exclusive: Broadcaster looks to hasten shake-up amid TV advertising slump with most job losses likely to affect London-based workers

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2024

Channel 4 boss says results of internal probe on Russell Brand ‘weeks’ away

The comedian was accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse following a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

There are five workplace personalities, a couple are more likely to become bosses

Socially adept workers appear more likely to succeed as AI takes over menial tasks once seen as vital to progression.

Fortune · Nov 10, 2023

Gen Z can’t work alongside people with different views because they ‘haven’t got the skills to disagree,’ says British broadcasting boss

Channel 4's chief exec blames social media and the pandemic for Gen Z’s deficiency in essential workplace diplomacy.

Fortune · Sep 25, 2023

Gen Z ‘twice’ as likely to call in sick to go to concert than millennials, study reveals

Study appears to suggest that the younger generation is more into music than their predecessors

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2023

Gen Z haven’t got ‘skills to debate things or disagree’, Channel 4 boss claims

Alex Mahon, chief executive of Channel 4, suggested that young people are arriving in the workplace ill-equipped with the skills needed to communicate with colleagues

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

ITV boss says ‘perhaps’ leaders not calling out inappropriate behaviour enough

Dame Carolyn reflected on how the industry is handling abuses of power within its ranks at the Royal Television Society Cambridge conference.

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

‘Fighting for our lives’: UK broadcasters in deep trouble from short video craze

Younger viewers’ taste for snacking on online content is threat to TV industry but slowing output by streaming firms is giving it chance to strike back

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2023