THE DPP | WHAT ’ S NEXT?
LESSONS LEARNT FROM LOCKDOWN
Respondents feel very different from week to week, both for better and for worse ”
LEFT The DPP’s managing director, Mark Harrison, speaking with DEFIANT from his home in the UK
MARK HARRISON Harrison began his career as an historian at Cambridge University, before moving into broadcasting. He spent 15 years as a freelance film director and executive producer making programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. Among the awards for his work were ones from the RTS, BFI and an International Emmy. In 2002, he was appointed as head of arts for the BBC, where he subsequently became head of multiplatform production and established a reputation for production innovation. In 2011, he became controller of production for the BBC North in Salford and was responsible for defining and delivering new ways of working. In the same year, Harrison became a founding member of the DPP, which was created by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to accelerate the move to end- to-end digital production and distribution in British broadcasting. In 2017, he left his position at the BBC to devote more time to his role as managing director of the DPP.
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