I understand that today is the day ITV News moves to a system where reporters edit their own TV packages. How can you tell someone new to video editing? Well, it’s always the sound that gives it away. That, and the going to black and flash frames. Having pioneered multi-skilling in TV newsrooms what would my […]
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Just returned from DNA 2008 in Brussels. Much joy to the new Ebbsfleet connection. Home to Brussels in just two and a half hours. Lots of interesting stuff (Robin Hamann did a nice turn). And around the back of the hall, conspiracy theorists were noting darkly just who had most to gain from the Harry story breaking […]
The old wisdom would have been that the coming News At Ten battle is between two types of television news. One side, the Beeb, driven by the need to inform. At its best patrician and provocative. At its worst dull. The other side, ITN, driven by the need to tell stories, at its best emotionally […]
In 2007, Mark Thompson Peter Horrocks apparently walked into a meeting of top BBC talent and declared — not untruthfully — “There is no market for newsreaders.” Unfortunately “even a dead cat bounces” (as finance types say) and the market promptly leapt back into action and Natasha Kaplinsky and Dermot Murnaghan both left the BBC for Sky. […]