Diana Edwards-Jones

Diana Elizabeth Edwards-Jones OBE (13 December 1932 – 14 April 2024) was a Welsh television director. She joined the news production company Independent Television News (ITN) as a stage manager in 1955 and was promoted to the role of programme director in 1961 and later head of programme directors in the 1970s. Edwards-Jones was a director of the daily half-hour News at Ten bulletin when it was launched in 1967. She directed other programmes such as royal documentaries, general elections in the United Kingdom and the Budget of the United Kingdom. Edwards-Jones introduced the earpiece for newsreaders to permit direct communication between the control room and newscasters and the practice of interspersing a short headline with the hour chimes of Big Ben during News at Ten's title sequence.