I listen to Radio 4 veraciously and I always tune in to their morning news programme, Today.
Recently two things have really annoyed me about the show. The first is the noise of people typing in the background as interviews take place. Are you listening or typing – you can’t do both!
The second and admittedly less [...]

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An (other) absolutely fantastic post by Martin Belam.
He gazes in to his crystal ball to bring us – BBC iPlayer launch: The first 14 days
With just ten days to go until the launch of the BBC’s much anticipated iPlayer software, I thought I would gaze into my crystal ball and predict what the first two [...]

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The BBC’s religion and ethics show Heaven and Earth has launched a competition of sorts encouraging viewers to send video of their inspirational places to the show. The ‘novelty’ is that they hoping to do this via youtube.
You can see the appeal for films in the clip below which is worth a watch (no, [...]

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One of our students, Nigel Barlow, linked in to my tips on shooting video and linked it with Pete Clifton’s comments about video on the BBC site. (reported on journalism.co.uk)

Interestingly whilst Andy is extooling the virtues of online video,the BBC strangely wants it journalists to cut back on the medium.
Sorry to disappoint Nigel but [...]

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Simon Dixon gave me a useful heads-up to a very interesting snippet in Helen Boaden’s speech to today’s big Future Of News conference. Apparently the beeb have the go ahead for a project called My News Now.
This will be a service which allows highly sophisticated personalisation – so whatever your age or interests, you can [...]

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The regional media are lining up to put the dampeners on the BBC’s plans to roll out their BBC local TV.
According to journalism.co.uk Andy Griffe, controller of BBC English Regions, has been trying to persuade Regional newspaper execs that they can ‘co-exist happily’ with the beeb.
But, predictably, they don’t agree.
Mark Dodson, chief executive of GMG [...]

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