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The declining price of broadcast news…
ITV has just spun out a new deal with its news supplier, ITN. In case you don’t understand the oddness of British TV news – ITV doesn’t have its own news division, it contracts the news out – and has done for fifty years – to a company it 40% owns. According to the headline…
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Royal Television Society Journalism awards
So the Royal Television Society‘s journalism awards… Strange things journalism awards ceremonies. Last year’s winner might struggle to make this year’s shortlist. Journalists work so much in the ‘now’ that any review is a vaguely uncomfortable reminder of tragedy, hubris or injustice. Still, the RTS is a real peer review process, as they say in…
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Future of news
MARTIN FEWELL “You’ve got the mouse, the remote control, the Personal Video Recorder. Not us.”Channel 4 News’ dep Martin Fewell takes to the blog to think about the Future of News. For everyone who thinks that mainstream media is a monolithic beast, dispensing judgment from on high, the reality of commercial network journalism is very…
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Sarah Smith
The excellent Sarah Smith is off to Washington DC as Channel 4 News correspondent. She’ll leave an interesting presenter vacancy at More4 News.