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Sunday guest booking
Stoke Newington GP, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, was on 5 Live this morning responding to the Government’s plan to survey 5 million patients. [BBC] Now I know it’s hard to get guests at 8am on a Sunday morning, especially about something quite so exciting. But booking someone like Fitzpatrick, and then introducing him as just another…
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Security experts…
From the BBC: Security analyst Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who met Mr Litvinenko several times, said the media focus on the Kremlin was “lazy” and bore the hallmarks of a John Le Carre novel. “We have to put this in a historical context,” he said. “Litvinenko’s last job within the FSB was heading up the anti-corruption unit…
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BBC local news…
Former BBC exec Roger Laughton has produced a report for the BBC on the impact of their local news trials in the West Midlands. [SH] So what did the former BBC exec’s BBC-commissioned report say about the BBC? 1) There’s a problem for local media.2) There’s no problem for local media. You guessed. Why do…
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The Future of News Media
To the Westminster Media Forum to talk about The Future of News Media. Hopefully, for the students, there is one. With charter review complete and the licence fee about to be set, no-one from the BBC is in attendance. But with a huge percentage of the jobs in broadcast and online news being in said…