Media Training update w/c 30th September

Good morning. It’s Monday 30th September. The week ahead:

Conference season continues. Tories in Birmingham.

Monday: Britain becomes the first G7 nation to phase out coal power when the country’s last coal-fired power plant ceases operations

Tuesday: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to appear before a Council of Europe panel in Strasbourg

Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s first-ever female president

Vice presidential debate in the US presidential election

Wednesday:  Jet-setting Sir Keir Starmer is off to Brussels for talks with Ursula von der Leyen

Thursday: ICC Women’s T20 World Cup begins

Friday: Coldplay releases new album

Saturday: Donald Trump returns to Butler for rally after assassination attempt

Thanks for your feedback on Part 4 of Year Of The Expert – I’m pleased it has struck a chord with some of you.

Here’s Part 4, Episode 4: Empty Space Vibe. How TV studios are changing, and the impact this has on you.

LISTEN HERE

Michael Gove is the new editor of The Spectator. 

“He’s a first-class journalist who took a detour into politics and not (as so often happens) the other way around.”

Fraser Nelson 

“I always defended Michael Gove. Then I met him.” 

A 2014 headline from…The Spectator (H/t Popbitch) 

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“If anyone is expecting someone like Gove to fend off the forces of populism on his own, it might be time for them to think again…”

And a different view from Archie Bland in The Guardian: READ MORE

“…a compass that points true north isn’t much use, after all, if your fellow travellers think it leads off the edge of the world.”

Building on last week’s news about the closure of the print edition of the Standard, two prominent journalists forge their own path.

(They aren’t the first, and they won’t be the last…)

It’s week 3 of the Monday Media Briefing weekly quiz. (And they said it would never last…)

This is from a recent episode of the consistently excellent The Rest Is Entertainment podcast. A theatre producer asked Richard Osman: 

What is the work of creative art – in any genre – that has made more money than any other in the history of art? 

You’ll never get it. Answer in the footnotes.

“With the internet ever more captive to the caprices of timeline algorithms, the risk of echo chambers is even greater in this election cycle. However it is now Trump and the broader political right that is – to use the internet lingo – “too online”.”

Paulo Gerbaudo in The Guardian 

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Footnotes:

Society of Editors nominations: READ MORE

On this day: Hollywood actor James Dean was killed when his sports car was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle on this day in 1955.

Weather: 15 degrees in Norwich. 13 degrees in Nantwich. 27 degrees in Nairobi.

Coffee? Inside Edge is hot-footing it around Edinburgh, Warrington and Exeter this week.

Quiz answer: The Lion King The Musical

Story of the week: Ellen emails. “So who would come out on top between angry commuter squirrels (see last week’s footnotes) and marauding runaway emus?” 

(My money is on the commuter squirrels.)

Mutts: Stan’s happy place…

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Have a brilliant week.

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