Janette Ballard
Speaker & Session Chair
Janette is an award winning documentary film director and media literacy consultant who works with a wide variety of organisations including the BBC, small NGOs, schools and a large law training firm. In 2017, Janette launched and led the BBC’s audience-facing media & news literacy programmes for Young Reporter (UK) and Beyond Fake News (BBC World Service in Kenya, Nigeria, India, Brazil, Serbia).
Janette’s work in media literacy is built on the back of a twenty year career as a BBC journalist, with key roles in teams including ‘Reality Check’, Panorama, digital storytelling training the Academy, policy development and BBC Northern Ireland. She is currently developing a piece of education technology targeted to pre-teens to help them build digital literacy skills.
Conference Contribution
A Manifesto in the Making
Watch Janette introduce the manifesto here.
Manifesto #1 – The Making Starts Here
Combating Disinformation – Trust & Technology: Years to build, seconds to break
Manifesto #2 – Eat, Think, and Help Build the Manifesto
Manifesto #3 – From Scaffolding to Building Blocks – have your say as a first draft emerges
MANIFESTO #4 – Feedback, Step back, Move Forward
Watch Janette’s update on the manifesto here.
MANIFESTO #5 – It’s Never too Late to Have your Say
Round table & Manifesto in the Making
Watch Janette present the full work on the manifesto from the conference here.
