HO
They were used more regularly when both services moved to NBH, but like many of the new ideas they had when they moved they fizzled out within a few weeks or months. It's like the joined up coverage between the World Services and the Television News Channels that never really happened
Surely that was more an off-air thing? The idea being that now they were in the same building those making working on the domestic news would actually talk to those on the World Service and exchange their knowledge.
In the past there were complaints that when there was a story happening in some not very well known part of, say, Africa they'd not ask their colleagues at Bush House, and in some cases even get in a journalist from elsewhere to talk on air
And actually since the World Services/ Television changes were announced there's been a significant increase, by my eye at least, in the number of corespondents and staff from services like BBC Arabic or Urdo appearing on the News Channel, and the number of foreign correspondent posts that are filled by staff who are obviously not British (or where English is clearly not their first language). Joined up thinking makes a lot of sense.
They were used more regularly when both services moved to NBH, but like many of the new ideas they had when they moved they fizzled out within a few weeks or months. It's like the joined up coverage between the World Services and the Television News Channels that never really happened
Surely that was more an off-air thing? The idea being that now they were in the same building those making working on the domestic news would actually talk to those on the World Service and exchange their knowledge.
In the past there were complaints that when there was a story happening in some not very well known part of, say, Africa they'd not ask their colleagues at Bush House, and in some cases even get in a journalist from elsewhere to talk on air
And actually since the World Services/ Television changes were announced there's been a significant increase, by my eye at least, in the number of corespondents and staff from services like BBC Arabic or Urdo appearing on the News Channel, and the number of foreign correspondent posts that are filled by staff who are obviously not British (or where English is clearly not their first language). Joined up thinking makes a lot of sense.