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(March 2013)

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HO
House
aconnell posted:
noggin posted:
aconnell posted:
Worth noting BBC News is advertising internally for a Media Editor to 'deliver exclusive stories and cover the major developments in the world of media – from global deals, to digital advances, to the future of the BBC'.

http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Media-Editor-BBC-Newsgathering/18028

Interesting brief, especially given it's an editor-level role which I find bemusing.


Not sure why you find basic journalism for an editor role bemusing? It sounds similar to the Home Editor, Sport Editor, Business Editor, Economics etc. editor roles. Effectively a senior correspondent responsible for breaking stories and being across their brief in detail.


I was just questioning whether the area of media news requires an editor-level journalist, not merely the role of Media Correspondent that David Sillito already assumes. You could argue Religion, Wales or Northern Ireland deserve an editor before Media does.


Or defence. The need for a media editor seems on par with a royal editor or legal affairs editor.

But then I wasn't in favour of dedicated arts, health or education editors either, and I think the need for a science editor is questionable too.
IS
Inspector Sands
With the appalling state of science reporting in the media, I'd say a specialist science correspondent - someone who understands the subject and can interpret scientific papers is essential.


As for the Media correspondent, the Guardian has recently scaled back media section significantly. I'd have thought there'd be a few reporters from there going for it
WO
Worzel
House posted:
noggin posted:
m_in_m posted:
Didn't they remove a media correspondent role not that long ago?


There may be a difference in letting a media correspondent take redundancy, and not instantly replacing them, and removing a role.

The BBC has been making DQF savings for a while now, which include reducing headcounts in certain grades. A person in a role may take redundancy, without the specific post they held being closed.


But Torin Douglas' media correspondent brief was specifically folded into David Sillito's already large arts and culture brief, which is a little different to him simply not being replaced immediately. I think this likely has more to do with altered editorial priorities in 2016 - both in terms of changed leadership at BBC News, and the much higher profile media news has received in recent years.

Torin may have volunteered for redundancy, but a job was always going to be lost within the arts and media department due to DQF.

While I'd imagine ongoing health concerns might make his appointment unlikely, I would have thought Steve Hewlett would be an obvious front runner for the post.


Didn't Nick Higham cover most of BBC News' media or television related stories until very recently.
Last edited by Worzel on 3 October 2016 10:31am
HO
House
Inspector Sands posted:
With the appalling state of science reporting in the media, I'd say a specialist science correspondent - someone who understands the subject and can interpret scientific papers is essential.


As for the Media correspondent, the Guardian has recently scaled back media section significantly. I'd have thought there'd be a few reporters from there going for it


Quite a difference between specialist correspondent and editor, though. Clive Coleman covers legal affairs perfectly well at a correspondent level, in the same way Nicholas Witchell and Peter Hunt do when it comes to royal coverage. But the idea of having an Arts editor, Media editor, hybrid correspondent (Sillitoe), arts correspondent (Jones), and several entertainment correspondents/reporters (Mazima, Patterson and others) seems unnecessary, especially when you consider business correspondents, special correspondents, and news correspondents like Nick Higham already cover media stories and, I'd imagine, will continue to.

I've no problem with the BBC redeploying an existing correspondent to cover media news exclusively, but it seems irresponsible to keep creating editor-level positions (education, health, China, religion, media) when under financial constraints and having consistently reduced staffing levels.
HO
House
Worzel posted:
Didn't Nick Higham do most of BBC News' media or television related stories until very recently.


He did for a number of years, but I'm pretty sure he became a news correspondent around the time he started hosting Talking Books on the news channel (which he has since left).
MI
m_in_m
A number of the arts/media/entertainment correspondents also seem to fulfil other roles e.g. Rebecca Jones is the second presenter for the book show on news channel/Radio 4 and I think Colin Patterson also presents on Radio 5 Live occasionally.
BA
bilky asko
House posted:
Worzel posted:
Didn't Nick Higham do most of BBC News' media or television related stories until very recently.


He did for a number of years, but I'm pretty sure he became a news correspondent around the time he started hosting Talking Books on the news channel (which he has since left).


Meet the Author, which is now hosted by James Naughtie (and, apparently, also by Rebecca Jones on occasion) - EDIT: as mentioned in the post above mine.
HO
House
bilky asko posted:
House posted:
Worzel posted:
Didn't Nick Higham do most of BBC News' media or television related stories until very recently.


He did for a number of years, but I'm pretty sure he became a news correspondent around the time he started hosting Talking Books on the news channel (which he has since left).


Meet the Author, which is now hosted by James Naughtie (and, apparently, also by Rebecca Jones on occasion) - EDIT: as mentioned in the post above mine.


Darn - that's what I meant!

9 days later

LL
London Lite Founding member
There was a new biz presenter on the PM BBC Business bulletins, but can't pronounce her name.
HB
HarryB
London Lite posted:
There was a new biz presenter on the PM BBC Business bulletins, but can't pronounce her name.

It's Vishala Sri-Pathma.
DA
DAN09690
HarryBNF posted:
London Lite posted:
There was a new biz presenter on the PM BBC Business bulletins, but can't pronounce her name.

It's Vishala Sri-Pathma.

Video:
RK
Rkolsen
I'm not sure where to post this but there was a testy segment on Morning Joe this morning with Dr. Ben Carson. World News America's Katty Kay was a panelist/contributor /newsreader today and asked a question to Dr. Carson about Trumps sexual assault claims. He didn't want to answer and as she presssed him to the answer and told Joe Scarborough to cut Katty's mic.

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/ben-carson-clashes-with-katty-kay-can-you-turn-her-microphone-off/308134

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