Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor started her career as a secretary on the Foreign Desk of Independent Television News where she became a trainee journalist, sub-editor and scriptwriter on ITN’s national news programmes.

 After a spell as a freelance radio reporter working on a variety of programmes with BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, she returned to ITN to work on the two 1974 General Election Programmes.

 A growing interest in politics led her to work on political programmes at Thames Television where she became their Lobby Correspondent, based at the House of Commons, reporting on politics for Thames News.

 The realisation that present economic and monetary systems had fundamental contradictions led her to The Other Economic Summit in 1984 and to the New Economic Agenda conference at the Findhorn Foundation.

 For seven years Jane worked for HTV in Wales making a wide variety television programmes including documentaries, light entertainment, chat shows, education and outside broadcasts.

 In 1993 she joined Shauna Crockett Burrows who had just started Planetary Connections. The idea was to report what was ‘breaking through rather than what was breaking down’ and together with Shauna, as co-director, news editor and subsequently editor, she co-created what was  to become Positive News. An alternative quarterly newspaper, Positive News focussed on such things as organic agriculture, complementary medicine, renewable energy, new economics, sustainable architecture, appropriate technology and general environmental news. During that time she edited a book for Ervin Laszlo, called You Can Change the World published by Positive News. She also had her own Positive News Radio Show on the London station Resonance FM for 18 months.

 Since stepping down a few years ago Jane remains an occasional contributor to Positive News and has been working on a number of projects including helping Polly Higgins with The Ecocide Campaign.

 Jane is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest, a Trustee of the Cancer Prevention and Education Society and sits on the Advisory Board of the Gaia University.