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Strong Reactions
Current light reading includes Alastair Leithead’s reporter’s diary (blog perhaps?). He’s the BBC man embedded with Royal Marines in Afghanistan’s south Helmand province. There’s nothing like sweating blood in the field to have some nit picked by a reader, but Leithead’s evidently got shoulders as broad as, well the rest of him (see The Guardian‘s…
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MIA: More Irritating Acronyms or Market Impact Assessment?
The military uses MIA for missing in action. The BBC uses it for market impact assessment. One is the result of battle, the other a way of avoiding it. Here’s how it works. Before launching a new service, or making significant changes to an existing service, the BBC Trust “must be satisfied that any likely…
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Educating journalists
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The drive to local
“If we go ahead with our vision of local TV, the scale of what we offer will be limited…Editorially it would aim to complement the market…There would be particular focus, for instance, on local democracy and community issues…The BBC’s local TV is intended to enrich our current local offering, represented by local radio in England…