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Donna Taberer (born 30 November 1964) is a British television producer and former head of entertainment at Channel 5.
She was born in East Sussex. She attended grammar school in East Sussex.[ citation needed ]
She began as a journalist at the age of 18, and trained on the NCTJ course.[ citation needed ]
She joined the BBC in 1990 as a researcher on That's Life! . She worked in factual programmes and factual entertainment as an executive producer. She oversaw the Children's Party at the Palace in 2006.[ citation needed ]
She rejoined the BBC in September 2010. [1]
From 2006 to 2009 she was in charge of commissioning entertainment on Sky 1, Sky 2 and Sky 3.
In August 2009 she joined Five as their head of Entertainment, [2] where she stayed for a year.
In September 2010, Taberer joined the BBC Academy [2] where she is head of public service partnerships; [3] the Academy includes, among other initiatives, a media training program for journalists and other experts aimed at helping to achieve gender parity on television. [4]