Lis Howell

Director of Broadcasting

Lis Howell graduated from Bristol University and took a Postgraduate Diploma in Education at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds. She was a reporter at Radio Leeds, joining Border TV as a reporter/presenter, then Granada TV and Tyne Tees TV. She became Head of News at Border, then Deputy Programme Controller, winning an RTS award with ITN for coverage of the Lockerbie air disaster.

She came to London as Managing Editor, Sky News. From there she became Director of Programmes at GMTV, then Director of Programmes at the new satellite channel UK Living where she was one of the founders. UK Living was taken over by Flextech and became Living TV and Lis Howell became Senior Vice President at Flextech, running Living, Trouble Challenge and Bravo TV channels until she left to attend Harvard Business School and set up her own website business, bowlofcherries.com

Lis Howell joined City University as a Visiting Lecturer in Television in 2002 and launched the Television Current Affairs Journalism PG Diploma shortly after. She now runs both the Broadcast Journalism and TV Current Affairs Journalism MA/Diploma courses.

Contact Lis

Contact Lis Howell by emailing journalism@city.ac.uk.

In the interests of fairness, Lis does not communicate with individuals about their personal applications. All applications are considered and all are welcome. If you want to find out more about the Journalism Department, its courses and facilities, please come to our next Open Evening.