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Jan 2, 2019 · Cameron Boyce, 20, passed away on July 6th, 2019. The young Disney Channel star was confirmed dead by his family, who told the press he’d ‘passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a ...
- Jennifer Phang
- Introduction
- The BBC in Northern Ireland
- Raising Our N&R Ambition
- Engage, Educate, Empower
- Harnessing The UK’s Full Creative Firepower
- Driving Forward This Ambition
- Conclusion
It’s a pleasure to be here in Belfast, and a real privilege to be able to deliver this lecture as part of the Belfast Media Festival’s tenth anniversary celebrations. And it’s an honour to be delivering the Dan Gilbert Lecture, who did so much to nurture and develop new talent in the BBC. Ten years ago, following discussions at the Creative Skillse...
I’m proud of the role that the BBC plays in and for Northern Ireland. It’s a relationship that goes back 95 years. But the past few years have seen us focus even harder on what we can do to step up our contribution. Two years ago, the BBC made its biggest investment in programmes and services in Northern Ireland in a generation. It’s allowed us to ...
Of course, this goal is not limited to Northern Ireland. The last few years have seen the BBC raise our ambition substantially across all the UK’s nations and regions. Scotland has seen the launch of a brand new channel. It has gone from a standing start to being the sixth most-watched channel behind only the big five. In its first six months, BBC ...
It has always been the BBC’s responsibility to represent and reflect the whole of the UK and all its communities. This was given a renewed focus in our latest Royal Charter. And rightly so: we must serve everyone - whoever and wherever they are. But in my view the BBC must always be looking to see what more we can do to respond to what our audience...
There’s another big reason this rootedness in every part of the UK is so vital. The BBC simply cannot compete in today’s global media landscape unless we are able to draw on the UK’s full creative firepower. We need to be the very best at unearthing, backing and championing talent and creativity wherever it is to be found. We all know in the past t...
So what are we doing to drive forward this ambition? I want to pick out just three examples of initiatives we have been working on this autumn. First, the BBC’s Local Democracy Reporter service. We launched it at the start of last year. It’s a partnership with regional newspapers and the local media sector more widely, and the goal is to support a ...
Schemes like these, I hope, give you a sense of the depth and range of our ambition. As the BBC’s nations and regions division, we are determined to be the front door to the BBC for everyone who wants to forge a career in the creative sector - a front door with a big sign on it saying: 'welcome'. And we want to be the biggest champions of programme...
Dec 29, 2019 · Prodigy star Keith Flint, actors Luke Perry, Peter Fonda and Doris Day, chef Gary Rhodes and sporting legends Gordon Banks and Niki Lauda are just a few of the stars we said goodbye to in 2019.
2014 celebrity nude photo leak. On August 31, 2014, a collection of nearly five hundred private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and swiftly disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit. The leak was dubbed " The Fappening ...
May 7, 2023 · Nick Gilbert, familiar to NBA fans as the Cleveland Cavaliers' representative at the draft lottery, died Saturday from a genetic condition. He was 26. The son of Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and ...
May 7, 2023 · Nick Gilbert, known by some NBA fans as the Cleveland Cavaliers' lucky draft lottery representative, has died at 26, the Ira Kaufman Chapel announced. A funeral announcement posted by the Southfield, Michigan, chapel said Gilbert died Saturday, “peacefully at home surrounded by family.”. Gilbert was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis (NF1) as ...
May 8, 2023 · “Dan and Jennifer’s commitment to NF research began when their oldest son, Nicolas, was born with NF1. They established the Gilbert Family Foundation in 2015 to advance groundbreaking, cutting-edge NF research and are focused on supporting the best ideas, no matter how radical they may seem at first.”
