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BBC Ambridge: ultra-local news
Everything that really need be said about the 15,000th episode of Britain’s longest running radio soap, The Archers, is said by Rob Hanks in the Indy. But if you want to know what ultra-local news may one day sound like, have a listen to community events in Ambridge, and be very afraid.
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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
Peter Preston weighed into the training debate yesterday. [Observer]