Root, Jane

Jane Marianna Root (born 18 May 1957) is an executive in the media industry. She was controller of BBC Two from 1999 to 2004, and the first woman to serve as a channel controller for the BBC. She became president of Discovery Networks in the United States in 2004. Root worked as a researcher and a producer on a range of projects including working with Michael Jackson (television executive) on the Channel 4 series Open The Box. She also wrote the accompanying book Open the Box: About Television (1986) as well as the accompanying book to the series Pictures of Women titled Pictures of Women: Sexuality (1984).