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Dawn Airey

August 2016

  • Usain Bolt competes in the Men’s 100m semi-final on Day nine of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

    Media interview
    'The defining image of Rio 2016 was Usain Bolt smiling at the camera'

  • Dawn Airey does a BBC World Service interview at the Rio Olympics.

    Media Monkey
    BBC cost cuts lead to 'closet' Rio Olympics interview with Dawn Airey

September 2015

  • Dawn Airey

    Dawn Airey joins Getty Images as CEO

  • Dawn Airey has left Yahoo after only two years.

    Dawn Airey quits as Yahoo's European boss after two years

July 2015

  • The Albert Hall is prepared for the BBC Proms. One BBC insider said the choice was for a broadcaster that was ‘a beacon for Britain around the world’ or ‘a market-failure model’.

    BBC fights back against Tory assault on 'waste' and right to make popular shows

    BBC defends entertainment role and cites public support and savings in annual report ahead of green paper likely to focus on inefficiency and commercial rivals
  • The BBC logo

    BBC charter review: what the panel members have said in the past

    This week sees details outlined of ‘root and branch’ review, as advised by eight experts. Here’s what each of them has prevously said on record about the BBC
  • The BBC director general, Lord Hall. A expert panel, including former Channel 5 boss Dawn Airey, has been assembled to advise the government during the charter review process.

    New political battle over the BBC's future to begin this week

    Concerns timing of appointment of panel to advise on charter review suggests ministers have already decided to mount ‘fundamental attack on scope of BBC’

March 2014

  • Dawn Airey

    Yahoo aspires to mirror the success of Netflix's House of Cards

    Dawn Airey is planning more original content 'emblematic' shows for internet company's global television audience. By John Reynolds

August 2013

  • Dawn Airey

    Dawn Airey to run Yahoo operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa

    Appointment of media executive, who left RTL in April, marks end of protracted hunt by internet company. By Mark Sweney

April 2013

  • Dawn Airey

    Dawn Airey to leave RTL

    Former Channel 5, Sky and ITV senior executive steps down from pan-European TV group after almost five years. By Mark Sweney

September 2012

  • Interview by Homa Khaleeli

    The conversation
    Will a woman ever run the BBC?

    Interview by Homa Khaleeli

    Caroline Thomson left the Beeb after failing to get the top job. She talks to former Channel 5 boss Dawn Airey about whether the broadcaster missed a golden opportunity

January 2012

  • Andy Allan

    Andy Allan obituary

    Television executive who worked for ITV for more than 30 years

March 2011

  • Mark Thompson

    Who will be the next director general of the BBC?

    The search for a new Director of Vision has prompted some discreet jockeying among TV chiefs. By Tara Conlan

January 2011

  • Jeremy Hunt at the Oxford Media Convention

    MediaGuardian
    Media Talk podcast: Jeremy Hunt unveils his grand plan for local TV

    The culture secretary's vision for 21st century regional television fails to get pulses racing at the Oxford Media Convention, where Matt Wells is joined by Maggie Brown and Dan Sabbagh to analyse the week's media headlines

August 2010

  • Greg Dyke immediately following his resignation from the BBC in 2004

    Greg Dyke rejects approach over top job at Five

    Five's new owner understood to have sounded out former BBC director general about returning to the station he helped launch in 1997
  • Jeff Ford and Richard Woolfe

    Channel Five 'bloodbath' as Richard Desmond culls seven directors

    Up to 80 jobs to go as broadcaster's new owner announces £20m cost-cutting drive. By Tara Conlan and Mark Sweney
  • Channel Five chief executive Dawn Airey

    Dawn Airey set to leave as Richard Desmond shakes up Channel Five

    Broadcaster's chairman and chief executive expected to move to management role at RTL after restructure. By Mark Sweney and David Teather

July 2010

  • Dawn Airey

    MediaGuardian 100 2010 1-100
    85. Dawn Airey

    Job: chairman and chief executive, Channel Five
    Age: 49
    Industry: broadcasting
    Staff:
    2009 ranking: 48

March 2010

  • David Abraham

    Organ Grinder
    Why would Channel 4 buy Five?

    Busfield: The long romance looks to be back on, but it's still not clear whether Channels 4 and Five belong together

January 2010

  • Organ Grinder
    Dawn Airey to chair Grierson Trust

    Channel Five chairman and chief executive appointed chair of trustees overseeing documentary awards

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