{"id":195,"date":"2007-01-10T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-01-10T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:35:00","slug":"clive-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/01\/clive-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Grade<\/span> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117957079.html?categoryid=19&#038;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">saved his first salary<\/a> with the departure of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Clive Jones<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Not one to mince words, in closing the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV News Channel<\/span><\/span> Jones famously told newsroom staffers that it was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;a bleeding sore&#8221;<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was one of the last of the regional news barons who rose through <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV<\/span>&#8216;s ranks without stopping at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITN<\/span>. Ironically he now joins ITN as a &#8216;strategic advisor&#8217;  &#8211; he&#8217;ll be a prized <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">consigliere<\/span>. In his final ITV incarnation he oversaw the process which ended the self-destructive rivalry that &#8211; on occasion &#8211; marred the working relationship between ITN and ITV&#8217;s regional news outfits. That relationship now operates successfully through <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV News<\/span>, and Grade can rely on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dave Mannion<\/span> and his team to keep delivering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Grade has saved his first salary with the departure of Clive Jones. Not one to mince words, in closing the ITV News Channel Jones famously told newsroom staffers that it was &#8220;a bleeding sore&#8221;. Jones was one of the last of the regional news barons who rose through ITV&#8216;s ranks without stopping at ITN. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[19,16],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-itn","tag-itv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}