“I had a career for 17 years and what am I doing now? What’s happened to my life? I had something that I was so proud of and the thing that I love doesn’t love me.” Stef Loughrey is a producer who has worked on some of the UK’s biggest television programmes. But in 2023 the steady stream of work she had relied on suddenly disappeared. The Guardian’s media editor, Michael Savage, tells Helen Pidd that Loughrey is not alone: about 70% of freelancers within the television industry are believed to be out of work, affecting everything from gameshows to
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