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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I try not to do this (being far from perfect), but have a read of the following story which asks, by way of reporting, Baby joy for Kaplinsky – but are Five chiefs happy?
Natasha Kaplinsky, who six weeks ago became […]
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Is fine. The thing that gave it most character, ironically, was not Natasha Kaplinsky but the promo for its long-running Your News segment, which was more impressive than the thin segment that actually aired.
The style is a familiar mix of glossy professionalism up top, and poppy amateurism down bulletin.
Will viewers abandon Emmerdale or Channel 4 News in […]
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My old dead tree version of the Atlantic finally arrived, and with it a lovely, insightful piece on Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News by Caitlin Flanagan.
As the new Kaplinsky Five News prepares to take to the air, and the revived News at Ten struggles, here is Flanagan’s conclusion on Couric:
That Katie has […]
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A source close to Natasha Kaplinsky tells MediaGuardian that she’s trousering £1m a year to join five.
BBC insiders reckon Kaplinsky’s loss was the real reason Peter Fincham quit.
Five’s news supremo Chris Shaw hammers the keyboard on behalf of the MediaGuardian fairly regularly, so you’d think they’d get a quote off him - but he’s saying nothing.
Still, £1m […]
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Alan Mutter’s Brain Drain post, is a reminder of how political many old media organizations are:
young net natives, for the most part, rank too low in the organizations that employ them to be invited to the pivotal discussions determining the strategic initiatives that could help their employers sustain their franchises.
…Members of the wired generation say the […]
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On BBC Radio 3 last night talking about the ethics of TV editing - if you want to listen, it’s here.
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Stands up and then stands down from newsreading at five ce soir. She is probably the most talented broadcaster I’ve ever come across, a bloody good writer and a damned fine human being to boot. So that’s my colours nailed to the mast.
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