Iraq elections coverage

Waveguide has a piece about how the UK channels are planning to cover next week's elections in Iraq

http://www.waveguide.co.uk/latest/news050118.htm

No doubt ITV News will send its Middle East Correspondent, Julian Manyon for it.

This article is ripped from the Media Guardian with no credit.

As predicted above, Julian Manyon is now back in Baghdad for ITV News.

Tim Marshall's in Baghdad for Sky.

ITV News now also has Juliet Bremner in Basra.

The diffiiculties of Iraq coverage were discussed on BBC Four's new media show, The Desk, tonight.

It's repeated loads of times - the next showing is Wednesday 8.30pm

Also, ITV News now has Neil Connery in Mosul.

Does anyone know if there are any special programmes on the Election on terrestrial tv. I couldn't find anything in the listings.

Edward Stourton was in Baghdad yesterday morning on the Today programme interviewing the British Ambassador, and also had John Simpson there with him.

Quite impressively, Tim Marshall's doing a Jeremy thompson and is presenting this hour of Sky News live from Baghdad.

A couple of technical problems, but nothing that doesn't occasionally happen when the presenters are in London.

He's currently speaking to a Fox correspondent in a ever so slightly more dangerous part of the city.

There are no special programmes scheduled on terrestrial except the John Simpson Panorama special on BBC One. Presumably if anything 'big' happens (multiple bomb attacks, etc.) they may simulcast BBC News 24 on terrestrial

John Simpson as ever fantastic. It will be a sad day when he leaves the beeb.