Former Times media editor Ray Snoddy is being lined up as presenter of a new weekly feedback show on BBC News 24.
The 30-minute show is due to launch on digital channel News 24 later this year or early in 2005, and will provide a weekly chance for viewers to air their opinions of BBC news, current affairs and other factual output.
Ok, I never meant to suggest that Natasha was not a professional, of course she is. I was just making a point in response to those who were getting a bit uppity about the idea of Moira daring to sit on the couch. The separation of 'journalist' and 'presenter' doesn't enter the thoughts of the viewers. I personally don't really care who sits on the couch as they are all much the same anyway. I do think, however, that in the minds of the ordinary viewers experience will always count for more than a piece of paper regardless of what those in the rarified corridors of power think.
I don't think we're really upiting on the subject. Most people here think that withy the experience she's got Moira should be on the sofa we're just explaining BBC policy to you.
Most people here think that withy the experience she's got Moira should be on the sofa.
Absolutely... and from what I've heard from people who've done them, a significant number of journalism courses are so badly taught the qualifications aren't worth the paper they're printed on... and certainly no match for over 20 years experience working for BBC News.
On the other hand, has anybody considered that maybe Moira prefers the authoritative god-like role of being a straight bulletin presenter and doesn't want to devalue herself doing fluffy interviews about handbags and the like?
The course I'm doing is almost half theory based - we are encouraged to do the practical in our spare time. While it may be fascinating learning about audience response to films like Baise Moi and Natural Born Killers (both of which we watched in seminar) and spending an entire term looking at every single type of media genre in meticulous detail, there's not enough actual reportage, deadlines and subbing. But we were told by the lecturers that apparently employers are looking for "intellectuallized" journalists nowadays, ones who can analyse and look between the lines at a story. In other words, we've got so much crap in our heads we worry too much about postmodernism and not enough about actually letting the public know whats happened.
NB - The Cardiff University journalism course is entirely theory. At least at FCA we get to play with cameras and studios.
If you really want to be a broadcast journalist:
1- Be very, very clever to start with - no substitute for this, given the competition for jobs.
2- Do a traditional degree subject, such as English, History, or Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford or Cambridge.
3- Work on the student paper, magazine or radio station, get some work experience wherever you can in the holidays.
4- Do a decent postgrad journalism course.
5- Hopefully get a job, probably after a lot of effort and applications.
Living in the US, I watch the BBC World Newscast presented from both Washington and London.
A question or two:
*Has the co-pres been cancelled again? Mike Embley was solo from London last week, and again on Monday. Tanya Beckett didn't even present from Washington last Friday - but did do the business report from New York. This makes me wonder if the co-pres was cancelled, since she seemed to have been available to anchor from Washington, at least on that Friday.
*Also, where is Zeinab Badawi? It was posted here that it would be Katty Kay and Mike Embley Mon-Thurs, and Tanya Beckett and Zeinab Badawi on Fridays. Well, I've seen Zeinab once - the very first week of the co-pres. Its usually been Mike Embley on Fridays...
Living in the US, I watch the BBC World Newscast presented from both Washington and London.
A question or two:
*Has the co-pres been canceled again? Mike Embley was solo from London last week, and again on Monday. Tanya Beckett didn't even present from Washington last Friday - but did do the business report from New York. This makes me wonder if the co-pres was canceled, since she seemed to have been available to anchor from Washington, at least on that Friday.
*Also, where is Zeinab Badawi? It was posted here that it would be Katty Kay and Mike Embley Mon-Thurs, and Tanya Beckett and Zeinab Badawi on Fridays. Well, I've seen Zeinab once - the very first week of the co-pres. Its usually been Mike Embley on Fridays...
Co-Pres is on hold for a few weeks as most of the Washington Bureau is closed. It should return in time for the Republican Convention and then continue right through the election and beyond.
Zeinab has been to the Sudan to do some interviews for Hardtalk
Journalism student alert
NB - The Cardiff University journalism course is entirely theory. At least at FCA we get to play with cameras and studios.
Depends which course it is Meic. The undergrad is very theoretical and not really the best route into a journalism job. The postgrad on the other hand is very practical (with just media law and ethics for theory) and is generally considered one of the best in the country.
Best bet is to get a specialism at undergrad and then do the postgrad... At least then you have something to talk about when you become a journalist like politics or business.
Journalism undergrads can just talk about journalism...
Great to see Natasha reading this weekend's BBC ONE news. I personally think it'll be her who stands in for Sian when she does take a day off from the Six.
Not too sure if anyone else has seen this, but whilst viewing BBC NEWS via the Broadband console, Olympic news is not being shown due to copyright restrictions??? Can anyone ponder a guess at to why these reports cant be shown??? I mean, if the BBC own the rights to show the olympics then surely they can show it online??? You might also like to know that 2 mins of the old World Breakfiller can be heard in place of Olympic news.
Great to see Natasha reading this weekend's BBC ONE news. I personally think it'll be her who stands in for Sian when she does take a day off from the Six.
Not too sure if anyone else has seen this, but whilst viewing BBC NEWS via the Broadband console, Olympic news is not being shown due to copyright restrictions??? Can anyone ponder a guess at to why these reports cant be shown??? I mean, if the BBC own the rights to show the olympics then surely they can show it online??? You might also like to know that 2 mins of the old World Breakfiller can be heard in place of Olympic news.
It's the same with Radio 1... there's currently a notice informing listeners that there could be gaps in Listen Again programmes where there is Olympic coverage.
I presume one of the rights restrictions is that coverage on the internet can only be streamed live and not downloadable.
