Biography janet street porter

The pioneer of a broadcasting genre - Youth Television - Janet Street-Porter brought to the first multimedia generation a greater sense of intimacy and accessibility. Her programmes were characterised by the unconventional television techniques of mixing current affairs and lifestyle features, supplemented with information running ticker-tape fashion at the bottom of the screen or footage running alongside the presenter in vision.

The affect this sense of informality had in the more conventional area of news presentation could be seen by the success of Channel 5 News (1997- ): Kirsty Young striding around the newsroom while facts roll off the graphic display.

Born Janet Bull in Fulham, London, to an electrical engineer father and a school dinner lady mother, she married student Tim Street-Porter while they were at The Architectural Association.

After leaving architecture school in the mid-1960s, Street-Porter worked as a freelance journalist and, in 1968, was offered a job