Jane Wakefield
Broadcast Journalist @BBC
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WORK HISTORY
Broadcast Journalist @BBC
EDUCATION
Queen Mary University of London
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Literature (British and Commonwealth)
ABOUT JANE WAKEFIELD
A tech journalist with more than 20 years experience, I\'ve broken stories about some of the biggest tech firms in the world, made documentaries for TV and radio and covered breaking news in the tech sector. In my last year at the BBC, I edited the Technology online page. I\'ve presented World Service radio programmes including Tech Tent as well as moderating panels, most recently at Latitude 59 in Tallinn and Web Summit in Lisbon. I\'ve attending some of the biggest conferences in the world, including TED (which I have attended 12 times, including TED Global and TED Women) and recently helped curate The Times tech summit. I have written on every subject from broadband, to tech regulation, online harms, artificial intelligence, tech in Africa, robotics (including the UK\'s first ever interview with a sex robot), health, data and online privacy. One of my favourite specialisms is smart cities and I\'ve visited operation centres, tech hubs and green buildings around the world, making documentaries for World TV. Now I am freelance writing for the BBC, The Nikkei and others on all aspects of tech. I host the UKTN podcast and make radio docs for the BBC - most recently a Radio 4 investigation of those wrongly accused of sharing child abuse imagery. I have done copywriting projects for firms such as AWS and am writing a series of essays on the future of technology. I also offer media training, PR consultancy and conference hosting/moderation. Last year I also wrote a book - Leader’s Lives - profiling some of the tech industry’s most successful CEOs and founders.
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