Posted by
William Turvill
on 3 February 2012 at 11:47
Tags: Broadcast, Media Business, Radio, Television
UTV has appointed Belfast journalist Darwin Templeton as its new executive editor of news.
Templeton, who has more than 21 years of experience in journalism, will be responsible for the media company’s news output in Northern Ireland. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 31 January 2012 at 10:15
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, People, Radio, Regional Newspapers, awards
BBC Radio Kent presenter Julia George received a double honour at this year’s Kent Media Awards.
As well as being named Journalist of the Year, George also won the Kent Broadcast Journalist of the Year award. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 6 December 2011 at 10:06
Tags: Broadcast, Law, Radio
Former Monty Python John Cleese has expressed his disappointment in the accuracy standards of the British Press and at not being among the News of the World’s estimated 5,700-strong list of phone-hack targets.
Interviewed by Mark Lawson for Radio 4’s Front Row, Cleese was asked if he had been told that his phone may have been hacked. “No, but I live in hopeful expectation because I would love to get money out of that bunch of bastards.” (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 10 October 2011 at 06:52
Tags: Broadcast, Radio, awards
Media Show persenter Steve Hewlett has won this year’s Nick Clarke award for journalism for his interview with Press Complaints Commission chair in February this year.
Hewlett gave Buscombe a grilling on the Media Show in February this year - before the Dowler revelations, but a point when the regulator was already under pressure over its handling of the phone-hacking scandal. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 1 August 2011 at 09:05
Tags: Broadcast, Radio
According to the Sunday Express, Radio 4 is facing calls to curb swearing on the Today programme.
In front page report it noted that 8.10am on Friday, the words “bullshit” and “bastards” were were repeatedly used in a report about the abuse levelled at academics research chronic fatigue syndrome (ME).
The Express quotes LBC radio presenter Nick Ferrari: “You would never have this grotesque use of words on commercial radio. There is no justifable reason for Radio 4’s decision.”
A spokesman for Today told the paper: “Emails including abusive language were included in the report to demonstrate the level of intimidation involved in the campaign. We felt this was editorially justified.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 July 2011 at 07:30
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Radio, Television
The NUJ’s second BBC-wide journalists’ strike in protest at threatened compulsory redundancies is due to take place on Monday, 1 August.
The strike had been due to take place this Friday but has been delayed “following representations from the BBC”, Ariel reports.
A first strike held in response to the current round of cutbacks on 15 July led to major disruption of news output.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 5 July 2011 at 09:07
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Radio, Television
Budget cutbacks may mean that hundreds of journalism jobs are set to be cut at the BBC - but that doesn’t mean that there are no jobs there for journalists, according to head of the BBC College of Journalism Jonathan Baker.
Writing on the CoJo blog he says: “The BBC employs several thousand journalists. At any point in time, people are arriving, changing jobs, or leaving. So opportunities arise regularly.” (more…)
Posted by
Myriam Dijck
on 1 July 2011 at 09:37
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, People, Radio
Award-winning journalists David Dunseith, best known as the host of BBC Radio Ulster’s Talk Back programme, has died.
Dunseith grew up in Derry and began his career in the police. In the 1970s he switched careers to journalism after being offered a reporter job at Ulster Television, before becoming a producer and UTV Reports presenter.
UTV colleague Paul Clark said Dunseith had one of the most distinctive voices in broadcasting.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 14 June 2011 at 13:52
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People, Radio
Welsh former journalist Ian Skidmore, 82, is donating all royalties from his republished series of books to the armed forces.
Royalties from Skidmore’s recently republished book on Anglesey artist Kyffin Williams, called ‘The man who painted in Welsh’, will go to the Help for Heroes and other armed forces along with those from around 30 other titles due to be rereleased. (more…)
Posted by
Peter Stuart
on 13 June 2011 at 10:28
Tags: Broadcast, Newspapers, People, Radio, Regional Newspapers
Two journalists were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this weekend.
Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray was made a dame in recognition for her services to radio and former local newspaper editor Peter Atkins received an MBE for services to journalism. (more…)
Posted by
Sam Brodbeck
on 8 June 2011 at 10:24
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Radio
The Today programme has been accused of “poisoning discourse in this country” by comic writer Graham Linehan after something of a ‘car-crash’ interview with Justin Webb on the Today programme.
Linehan – the writer behind comedies such as Father Ted, Black Books and the IT Crowd – claimed he was “ambushed” into a “typical Today programme bunfight”, after being invited on to the show to discuss his part in a new stage adaptation of The Ladykillers. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 19 April 2011 at 13:29
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, New Media, Newspapers, Online, Radio, Television
A study carried out by Tim Bishop of the BBC for both the BBC and the Newspaper Society sheds new light on where local news comes from.
He monitored news stories reported in Northamptonshire for a month on various media and concluded that the vast majority of frontline news reporting was carried out by the local newspapers in the patch.
It underlines the point that the regional press is the bedrock of British journalism because it does so much of the original reporting that other media rely on. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 14 April 2011 at 10:29
Tags: Broadcast, Radio, Television
BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin has responded to criticisms that the corporation has given too much coverage to the Fukushima nuclear disaster - at the expense of the rest of the Japan tsunami story - and that it has been too trusting of reassurances from the nuclear industry.
Writing on the BBC College of Journalism blog he says: (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 8 April 2011 at 10:01
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, International, People, Radio
BBC newsreader Arslan Koichiev has resigned after claims emerged that he’d help foment a revolution in Kyrgyzstan, according to a report. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 7 April 2011 at 11:23
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, International, Journalism education, People, Radio, Television, awards
The BBC and Channel 4 lead the shortlist for the One World Media Awards with each picking up nine nominations.
The nominations come across 13 award categories with Lindsey Hilsum, international editor of Channel 4 News, and Jill McGivering, South Asia editor for the BBC World Service, both nominated for the journalist of the year prize.
(more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 25 March 2011 at 15:24
Tags: Broadcast, Radio
This weekend spells the end of the BBC World Service’s radio output in Russian and the closure of the broadcaster’s main medium wave frequency in western Europe. It comes after the Foreign Office funding for the service was cut by 16% in the government’s spending review last October. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 15 March 2011 at 09:32
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Radio
The BBC said last night that it was exploring ways to keep the Asian Network open – raising hope that it had reversed an earlier decision to close the service.
The decision comes after a series of U-turns by the BBC in recent months over service closures. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 9 March 2011 at 11:13
Tags: Broadcast, Media Business, Radio, Television
Latest Television has become the latest company to publicly announce that it has bid for the right to run the ‘spine’ channel at the heart of Jeremy Hunt’s Local TV plan.
Bill Smith, founder of the Brighton-based business, told Press Gazette that around “12 or 13” bids are competing to run the channel which will broadcast national networked programming into which shows from regional stations will be interspersed. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 7 March 2011 at 11:43
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Radio
The BBC said today that it intended to retain a part of the Hindi news service it had originally earmarked for closure while it explores the possibility of transferring the service to a commercial organisation.
The BBC Hindi radio was one of five separate services scheduled for closure as part of the outcome of the corporation’s Spending Review 2010 settlement. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 22 February 2011 at 09:29
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, People, Radio, Television
Tom Bradby, political editor of ITV News who bagged the first interview with Prince William and Kate Middleton after their engagement was made public, has criticised the inflated salaries of senior journalistic staff at the BBC.
Responding to revelations made over the weekend that Andrew Marr was paid £600,000 annually by the BBC; Bradby used a series of Twitter updates to lay into BBC bosses for paying such exorbitant fees.
He accused the BBC of outpacing its commercial rivals in terms of salaries to senior journalistic staff, saying things had got out of control and that the corporation had created “its own internal market”. (more…)
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