Steve Hewlett is currently a Guardian Columnist and broadcasting consultant whose clients have included Tiger Aspect, the Guardian Media Group, Ofcom, DCMS and Channel 4.  He also runs Big Pictures Ltd, a television production Company with commissions from Channel 4, the BBC and the PBS Network in the USA.  He is visiting Professor in Journalism and Broadcast policy at Salford University.  He is also a regular contributor to and presenter of programmes on Radio 4 and Five Live, including being the weekly host of The Media Show on Radio 4.

Steve started as a researcher on Nationwide in 1981 before going onto produce a number of series on Channel 4 in the mid-eighties, including The Friday Alternative and Diverse Reports. In 1987 he began working on factual programmes at the BBC and in 1990 he became producer and then Editor of Inside Story. From 1995 to 1997, Steve was editor of Panorama and Executive Editor of Special Projects. He was Executive Producer of the first two series of Children’s Hospital as well as The Skipper, Rough Justice, States of Terror and The Diamond Empire.

Steve took over as Director of Programmes, Carlton Television, in September 1998, having previously been Head of Factual Programmes and Features on Channel 4. He became Managing Director of Carlton Productions in January 2001 with responsibility for Carlton TV Productions. Planet 24 and Action Time. He left ITV at the time of the Granada/Carlton merger.