JW
Hello Cymru,
I would personally like to hear answers to the following questions:
1) Has the traditional news programme now died out, i.e. in the form that The Nine O'clock News and ITN's News at Ten used to be, where we would get thirty minutes of serious news delivery and not thirty minutes of banter between anchors?
2) What steps will the BBC take to protect its current market position as the worlds largest news broadcaster, and does it see agenices such as CNN and Al Jazeera being a major threat, or are these services complementary, servicing different markets?
3) As a female who has made it to the top in BBC News, how does she feel about the BBC's recent disposal of BIG MOIRA , and why, in fact, did the BBC drop Moira from news?
Good luck!!!
James
I would personally like to hear answers to the following questions:
1) Has the traditional news programme now died out, i.e. in the form that The Nine O'clock News and ITN's News at Ten used to be, where we would get thirty minutes of serious news delivery and not thirty minutes of banter between anchors?
2) What steps will the BBC take to protect its current market position as the worlds largest news broadcaster, and does it see agenices such as CNN and Al Jazeera being a major threat, or are these services complementary, servicing different markets?
3) As a female who has made it to the top in BBC News, how does she feel about the BBC's recent disposal of BIG MOIRA , and why, in fact, did the BBC drop Moira from news?
Good luck!!!
James
DA
An extract from an interview I did for my dissertation with Helen Boaden in October this year. Thought it might answer your first question.
Me: Do you think the end of the traditional news bulletin is nigh?
Helen Boaden: No I don't. I think it's really interesting how, I think for a very long time, there will be an audience who really don't want to search out the stories that interest them. They will want to say to us and to ITN, "You tell us what's important, we trust you, we will sit here and we will give you half an hour of our time and we will be very interested in what you've got to say." There will also be audiences that will simply never do that. It won't even cross their minds.
Me: But do you think young people will ever get in to that...?
Helen Boaden: I don't know. It depends how knackered you are at the end of the day. The thing about the young is that they actually don't know how tired you can be when you've been working a full week, you've got two small children, yo actually do want to want to connect to the real world, or the world of news - however real that is - at some point but you certainly don't want to surf the web, you don't want to choose your own news stories, you want it to be a passive experience. What we talk about when we talk about the on-demand world is the great ability of technology to allow us to personalise and actually have a relationship - sometimes you don't want a relationship, sometimes you just want to be told!
Me: Do you think the end of the traditional news bulletin is nigh?
Helen Boaden: No I don't. I think it's really interesting how, I think for a very long time, there will be an audience who really don't want to search out the stories that interest them. They will want to say to us and to ITN, "You tell us what's important, we trust you, we will sit here and we will give you half an hour of our time and we will be very interested in what you've got to say." There will also be audiences that will simply never do that. It won't even cross their minds.
Me: But do you think young people will ever get in to that...?
Helen Boaden: I don't know. It depends how knackered you are at the end of the day. The thing about the young is that they actually don't know how tired you can be when you've been working a full week, you've got two small children, yo actually do want to want to connect to the real world, or the world of news - however real that is - at some point but you certainly don't want to surf the web, you don't want to choose your own news stories, you want it to be a passive experience. What we talk about when we talk about the on-demand world is the great ability of technology to allow us to personalise and actually have a relationship - sometimes you don't want a relationship, sometimes you just want to be told!