Nothing very interesting or new, but today's FT has a piece on the new News 24:
NATIONAL NEWS: BBC to relaunch News 24 next month
By Tim Burt, Media Editor
Financial Times; Nov 12, 2003
The BBC will relaunch News 24, its digital news channel, next month with more international, regional and breaking news almost a year after a damning government report on the service.
The government ordered the BBC to produce a new service remit for News 24 last December after the Lambert report said it was too similar to commercial rivals.
Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, urged the BBC to develop a new identity for News 24 after the report - by Richard Lambert, former editor of the Financial Times - warned that it was not distinctive enough.
The relaunch follows a three-month review of the channel by Mark Popescu, editor of the BBC's flagship Ten O'Clock News bulletin.
"It will reflect quite a bit of Lambert," said one BBC insider. "We are taking on board quite a few things on domestic news, better flagging of breaking news and news from around the UK."
The BBC is understood to have spent up to £1m on the redesign. Total expenditure on News 24 fell from £25.7m to £23.8m in the financial year ending March 31.
BBC executives have ordered news editors to come up with stronger regional stories and better programme scheduling.
The BBC board of governors is expected to review the redesigned news service at its meeting this month. The relaunch comes as the BBC considers new editorial guidelines, freelancing arrangements and reporting standards following the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly, the government scientist.
The changes could form part of the corporation's response to the inquiry - expected to publish its findings early next year.
BBC reporting standards and self-regulation by the board of governors were questioned during the inquiry, set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Kelly. The scientist apparently killed himself after being named as the source for controversial BBC reports questioning the government's handling of intelligence dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
This month's governors meeting is expected to endorse a plan to ban BBC staff reporters from writing freelance newspaper columns.
"It will reflect quite a bit of Lambert," said one BBC insider. "We are taking on board quite a few things on domestic news, better flagging of breaking news and news from around the UK."
BBC executives have ordered news editors to come up with stronger regional stories and better programme scheduling.
Looking at this report it sounds 'interesting' if you try and read between the lines. My interpretation is that if you spend a million quid on redesigning the set then something is going to be a tad different. Everyones going on about the air con, that only about 30 grand!
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"It will reflect quite a bit of Lambert," said one BBC insider. "We are taking on board quite a few things on domestic news, better flagging of breaking news and news from around the UK."
BBC executives have ordered news editors to come up with stronger regional stories and better programme scheduling.
Looking at this report it sounds 'interesting' if you try and read between the lines. My interpretation is that if you spend a million quid on redesigning the set then something is going to be a tad different. Everyones going on about the air con, that only about 30 grand!
There could well be some off-screen stuff (infrastructure rather than technical) being reorganised, always delightfully expensive in my experience!
Interesting to note the price tag per year of the channel in that report, weren't people quoting £50million a few months ago on here? I may well be wrong!
The BBC will relaunch News 24, its digital news channel, next month with more international, regional and breaking news almost a year after a damning government report on the service.
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Will there Buffalo be more "regional" news content. Snoozegathering will work in the same way. Region flags up story. Region is ignored. PA picks up story after watching Region's bulletin. Daily Mail picks up story from PA. News 24 picks up story from Daily Mail.
