Editing World in Action (section)

===TV production companies===
A number of ''WIA'' veterans went on to set up and run their own independent television production companies. [[John Smithson]] and [[David Darlow (film producer)|David Darlow]], who set up the production company Darlow Smithson, responsible for the feature films ''[[Touching the Void (film)|Touching the Void]]'' and ''Deep Water'' and many factual TV programmes including ''[[Survival in the Sky|Black Box]]'' and ''[[The Falling Man]]'', worked together on ''WIA''. Claudia Milne founded twentytwenty TV, which made a successful current-affairs strand for ITV, ''The Big Story'', as well as popular factual series such as ''Bad Boys' Army''' on ITV and ''[[That'll Teach 'Em]]'' on Channel 4. Brian Lapping set up the much-garlanded Brook Lapping company, which made ''[[The Death of Yugoslavia]]'' and many other landmark contemporary history programmes. Stuart Prebble, a former editor of ''World in Action'', runs Liberty Bell, best known for the popular ''[[Grumpy Old Men (TV series)|Grumpy Old Men]]'' series on the BBC. Another former editor, Steve Boulton, started an [[eponymous]] company, which made ''Young, Nazi & Proud'', a [[Bafta]]-winning profile of the young [[British National Party]] activist [[Mark Collett]]. Simon Albury went on to lead the Campaign for Quality Television and was a founder director of the ITV company [[ITV Meridian|Meridian Broadcasting]].

One of the biggest British independent production companies is All 3 Media, which controls several other leading companies, including [[Lime Pictures]], formerly [[Mersey Television]], makers of ''[[Hollyoaks]]''. It is run by Steve Morrison, a former ''WIA'' producer.