City Women’s Network, one of the first professional women’s networking organisations, is now celebrating its 30th year and Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London has just been elected Vice President. CWN was founded in 1978 and has adapted and grown in membership and stature since then.
Roz is pictured with Clare Dobie (left), the newly elected President.
"I’m honoured to be elected Vice President of CWN", Roz says. "I look forward to a successful 30th anniversary year for the network. We have a lot of terrific events planned which we know will be interesting to senior professional women."
City Women’s Network started in the mid 1970’s when a small group of women lawyers and accountants working in the City of London began meeting together to provide mutual support in a male dominated business environment. These first meetings were lunches held in office meeting rooms informally, and then in a private dining room upstairs at the famous Mother Bunch’s Wine Bar. The official Launch meeting with a formal constitution was held in November 1978 at the Law Society. In November 2008 this will be commemorated with a formal City Women’s Network dinner at Stationers’ Hall.
CWN’S first Chairman was Janice Wright, a solicitor, and expert on intellectual property. She was one of the first women in the City of London to become a partner in a commercial law firm. The network’s current President, Clare Dobie, runs her own marketing company, Braxted Marketing Measures and is a former financial journalist. CWN’s Patron is Janet Gaymer, Public Appointments Commissioner for England and Wales and formerly senior partner with top City Lawyers, Simmons and Simmons Solicitors.
All members must have a minimum of 5 years senior management experience and the current Membership is 150. CWN Membership now covers Greater London, and abroad, as well as the City of London. Members were originally mostly in finance or legal professions: they are now cross-sectoral and include finance, legal, IT, marketing, management consulting, training, HR and travel. 40% of members work in corporates - 60% are entrepreneurs.
Click here to visit the CWN website
Published 05 May 2008
Congratulations to Stephen Douglas – former employee of TV News London - and son of Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London.
Stephen won two prizes at the 2008 ITV News Awards held in Savoy Place, Central London. He won the Bronze Award for Scoop of the Year, and also the Bronze Award for News Feature of the Year. In addition, Granada Reports, the programme he works for, gained the Silver Award for Best Regional ITV News Programme. Stephen, pictured left, is seen at the awards ceremony with his father Malcolm Douglas, Deputy Editor of GMTV. Last year Stephen won the top prize of ITV Young Journalist of the Year 2007.
"I’m really pleased that I’ve won again this year and very glad that I have the opportunity to work on so many important stories for Granada", Stephen says.
Published 17 March 2008
Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London Ltd attended this year's prestigious Women of the Year Lunch held at the InterContinental Hotel in Park Lane in London W1. Roz, who is on the Nominating Council for the Lunch is pictured (left) with Eleanor Angel, the Chairman of the Women of the Year Lunch. Eleanor is a director of Angels the costumiers, who supply costumes for major films and television dramas.
The Women of the Year Lunch was founded more than 50 years ago by the late Lady Antonella 'Tony' Lothian OBE to ensure that women's achievements in all fields were recognised at a major event every year.
'This year's Lunch was attended by 400 outstanding women, and was a truly inspiring event' says Roz. 'It is really humbling to be with so many amazing women who have achieved so much.'
The President of the Women of the Year Lunch is Joan Armatrading and at this year's Lunch awards for outstanding achievements were made to the following extraordinary women :
Sister Frances Dominica 2007 Women of the Year Award
Sister Frances Dominica is a nun and pioneer to the hospice movement. She is founder of Helen House, the first children's hospice in the world, which provides care to children with life-limiting illness. The hospice opened in 1982 following a friendship Sister Frances had with the parents of a seriously ill girl called Helen, who lived with her family but required 24hr care. Sister Frances continues to dedicate her life to fundraising as well as lecturing and writing on the care of children and young people with life-limiting illness. Sister Frances is a truly exceptional woman, who has helped and influenced people around the world both personally and professionally.
Jasvindar Sanghera 2007 Women of the Year Award
Jasvinder Sanghera was awarded the Women of the Year Window to the World Award sponsored by Pilkington UK plc and announced by presenter Shami Chakrabarti. This award salutes a woman whose courage and determination to bring to our attention the plight of other human beings – often at risk to herself – changes the way we think about the world.
Jasvinder Sanghera campaigns for the rights of victims of forced marriage, domestic violence and honour killings. As a result of her charity, Karma Nirvana, she has provided support to many women unable to help themselves– often putting her herself at risk. Jasvinder works regularly with the British Transport Police and is a regular contributor to official think tanks and organisations concerned with integration and the growing crimes against individual freedoms. She refused her own forced marriage and broke the silence by sharing her experience, and the experiences of her six older sisters, who were all taken to India to marry and then trapped in abusive and oppressive relationships. It is her belief and courage that has opened a window of opportunity to those in need.
Marguerite Patten 2007 Women of the Year Award
Marguerite Patten (OBE) was awarded The Women of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by Elior for her outstanding contribution to cookery. Presenter Fern Britton announced the award which is given to a woman who, during her lifetime has inspired generations of women and through changing times, and trends, she has been true to herself, maintained integrity and commanded the respect of her peers.
Marguerite Patten, OBE is an accomplished home economist, food writer and broadcaster. She began giving cookery advice whilst working for the Ministry of Food. Her advice and books were instrumental in improving the quality of British cookery in the post-war years, when rationing meant that more exotic dishes were impossible to prepare. Marguerite was awarded the OBE in 1991 for 'services to the art of cookery'. Today she remains one of Britain's top selling cookery writers, a career that spans more than 60 years, Marguerite is an inspiration, she has sold 17million copies of her 170 books and has won 5 lifetime achievement awards – Including this one.
Rose Molokoane 2007 Women of the Year Award
Rose Molokoane was awarded the Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award sponsored by Good Housekeeping and announced by Comedian Victoria Wood. The award acknowledges and celebrates a phenomenal achievement against all odds by a woman whose indomitable spirit has shown the world that anything is possible.
Rose Molokoane’s story began in Oukasie, one of the most famous informal settlements in South Africa where she was born and raised. Rose is now the National Chairperson for the 80,000 member South African Homeless People’s Federation and a board member of Shack/Slum Dwellers International. She has supported and helped more than 150,000 squatters, a vast majority of whom are women to pool their savings. This in turn, won them sufficient standing to negotiate with the government for a progressive housing policy that has already produced 15,000 new homes and secured more than 1,000 hectares of government land for development. A South African veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, this courageous and determined woman is one of the most internationally recognised grassroots activists involved in land tenure and housing issues around the world.
Published 12 October 2007
"Ditch the laughter, keep the smile"
Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London, has just been interviewed on BBC World Service Radio on - 'The World Today' programme, about Hillary Clinton’s technique of laughing when faced with a difficult question.
They are calling it the Clinton Cackle and there are compilations on You Tube and Google. As an expert on interviews Roz was asked her thoughts on what the 'Cackle' meant and how it comes across. Roz offered advice on what Hillary should do when being interviewed. The interview went out on the World Service overnight in 3 programmes, transmitted worldwide on October 3rd 2007. Roz's final tip for Hillary is to "ditch the laughter and keep the smile..."
Published 10 May 2007
Congratulations to Steve Douglas, son (and former employee of TV News London) of Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London. Steve has recently won the Young Journalist of the Year Award at the ITV News Group Awards.
‘It feels fantastic to have won. I still can’t really believe it. But I put it all down to the great grounding and opportunities I got at ITV Border.’says Steve, Reporter/Presenter, Granada TV, Manchester
Published 20 March 2007
On Tuesday March 6th 2007 Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London Ltd, was featured in a documentary on Channel 4 about a famous psychical event – ‘The Enfield Poltergeist’. When Roz was a BBC radio reporter she produced and presented a radio documentary about a family in Enfield, North London, who had a series of very mysterious and unnerving events occurring at their house in the late 1970’s.
Roz’s radio documentary about the Enfield Poltergeist featured the first broadcast recordings of poltergeist activity and was broadcast several times on BBC Radio Four and the BBC World Service. In the Channel Four Documentary ‘Interview with a Poltergeist’, she will be seen talking about her experiences in Enfield and reflecting on what she thinks about the whole experience.
“One thing I can say is that I have never known anything like it before or since “, Roz says. “It really was out of the ordinary and not explicable in normal terms. You’ll have to watch the programme to make your own mind up about what was going on - it’s a really intriguing story.”
INTERVIEW WITH A POLTERGEIST - MARCH 6 - CHANNEL 4 AT 10PM
You can now watch the whole interview on You Tube HERE
Published 02 March 2007
In December 2006 Roz Morris's (Managing Director, TV News London) work as a media trainer was featured on programme 5 of the ‘Asbo Teen to Beauty Queen’ series, made by NorthOne TV - shown on Channel 5. The series takes a group of a dozen girls from deprived areas in Manchester and grooms them to compete in an American Beauty Pageant, Miss Teen International.
Roz had the pleasure of giving the final three teenage girls from Manchester some media training. Below are some stills from the episode.
Roz welcomes the girls, Rachel, Ashlee and Laura
always remember to smile...
the girls listen attentively to Roz's briefing
jotting down ideas...
So...who would like to go first....
Roz gives Ashlee tips on how to stand infront of the
camera when doing a piece to camera
Laura has a go...
Roz tells Laura to get rid of her chewing gum...
After veiwing back her interview Laura storms out of
the media training session...Roz rolls her eyes...
The girls and Roz practice mock radio interviews
and face to face media interviews...
near the end of the day the girls are confident
and decline a final practice of media interviews...
Roz watches behind the scenes the next day as the
girls are interviewed live on the Matthew Wright show
Published 29 January 2007
Roz Morris (right) Managing Director of TV News London Ltd, with Mei Sim Lai, President of the City Livery Club, at the 2006 Women of the Year Lunch at the Millennium Hotel Mayfair.
Published 18 January 2007
Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London Ltd, chaired the Somerville Media Day in November 2006, which brought together a wide range of influential media professionals.
The conference took place at the Margaret Thatcher Centre in Somerville College, Oxford and was attended by more than fifty Somerville alumni now working in a wide variety of media careers, including Esther Rantzen and her daughter Rebecca Wilcox.
The picture shows
Roz Morris (Centre) with some of the conference speakers (left to right)
Elizabeth Clough, Head of Mentorn Oxford, Felicity Spector, Editor More4 News, Katie Ghose, Director, the British Institute of Human Rights and Sheila Fitzsimons, Executive Editor Editorial Development, The Guardian.
Other speakers at the conference were Michele Roberts, Professor of Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Kate Williams, author of 'England's Mistress - the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton' and Kate Varney, Staff Director at The National Theatre.
Published 17 January 2007
Barnet Times Article October 26 2006
Published 07 November 2006