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But that's how it's always been - the news all comes from the same newsroom. I believe even the World Service sources the vast majority of its hard news from the main newsroom in TVC. (Isn't it on Stage VI?)
Depends on your definition of "Newsroom". Sure, the BBC News Newsgathering operation has always been mainly based on the first floor of the News Centre since it opened. However this newsroom is mainly about logistics - deploying reporters, crew and sat trucks etc. to cover the news events of the day. It hasn't "produced" the news.
The operations that turn this raw newsgathering (i.e. reporters and cameras on the ground and kit to get the material back to London) into programmes have also been called newsrooms (i.e. the production journalists who produce the bulletins and work with newsgathering producers and reporters to produce packages) and they have been split. The Radio Newsroom (responsible for producing Radio bulletins) and the TV Newsroom (responsible for the One/Six/Ten and originally BBC One daytime summaries) were based on the first floor. However BBC News 24 had their own production journalists - booking guests, sorting live OBs etc., packaging reports for News 24 (usually with reporters in edits not on location) - based on the second floor (in what you would probably describe as the News 24 Newsroom), and BBC World had a similar operation (again on the second floor - but just outside the News Center) BBC News Online had their own newsroom on the 7th floor (where the old BBC World operation used to be) When BBC Three News had its own news operation that was based on the 6th floor etc.
Now the Online, News 24, Radio and BBC One TV newsrooms are being merged on the 1st floor - and already common elements are being run together (so the TV bit that used to look out for good pictures is now working with the radio bit that looked for good sound actuality)
How BBC World fits into this I don't know.
noggin
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jrothwell97 posted:
But that's how it's always been - the news all comes from the same newsroom. I believe even the World Service sources the vast majority of its hard news from the main newsroom in TVC. (Isn't it on Stage VI?)
Depends on your definition of "Newsroom". Sure, the BBC News Newsgathering operation has always been mainly based on the first floor of the News Centre since it opened. However this newsroom is mainly about logistics - deploying reporters, crew and sat trucks etc. to cover the news events of the day. It hasn't "produced" the news.
The operations that turn this raw newsgathering (i.e. reporters and cameras on the ground and kit to get the material back to London) into programmes have also been called newsrooms (i.e. the production journalists who produce the bulletins and work with newsgathering producers and reporters to produce packages) and they have been split. The Radio Newsroom (responsible for producing Radio bulletins) and the TV Newsroom (responsible for the One/Six/Ten and originally BBC One daytime summaries) were based on the first floor. However BBC News 24 had their own production journalists - booking guests, sorting live OBs etc., packaging reports for News 24 (usually with reporters in edits not on location) - based on the second floor (in what you would probably describe as the News 24 Newsroom), and BBC World had a similar operation (again on the second floor - but just outside the News Center) BBC News Online had their own newsroom on the 7th floor (where the old BBC World operation used to be) When BBC Three News had its own news operation that was based on the 6th floor etc.
Now the Online, News 24, Radio and BBC One TV newsrooms are being merged on the 1st floor - and already common elements are being run together (so the TV bit that used to look out for good pictures is now working with the radio bit that looked for good sound actuality)
How BBC World fits into this I don't know.
, a linear ¦B¦B¦C¦ NEWS would've been far better.