A major broadcaster is recruiting a Sheffield-based digital commissioning manager with £50m to spend

Channel 4 recently launched 4 Innovations for the Public (4IP), which aims to help define how public service digital media evolves over the next few years.

An investment of £50 million will spearhead a wave of digital innovation by supporting regional digital projects that help deliver Channel 4′s public service remit in an original way.

What has this got to do with Sheffield? Well, to help identify these projects across the country, a group of regional commissioning managers are being recruited – and it seems that one of these will be based in Sheffield, tapping into local digital innovation and giving it a platform under the umbrella of 4IP.

This can only be good news for Sheffield’s digital and creative industries, and with the first phase of the digital campus due to open this Autumn, the timing couldn’t be better.