Media Training Update w/c 11th November

Good morning, it’s Monday 11th November.

“We won’t mince words – the next Trump administration poses a serious threat to press freedom.”

Reporters Committee

“Everything we know about the next US president suggests the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before.”

Margaret Sullivan

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“”Legacy media “is officially dead,” The Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh wrote on X overnight. “Their ability to set the narrative has been destroyed. Trump declared war on the media in 2016. Tonight he vanquished them completely. They will never be relevant again.”

CNN’s Brian Stelter reports on how the election bruised the media’s credibility.

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The week ahead:

Monday: COP29 opens in Azerbaijan

Keir Starmer attends Armistice Day service in France

Jonathan Reynolds and Kemi Badenoch give evidence at the Post Office Horizon inquiry.

Tuesday: Booker Prize winner announced

World Leaders Climate Action Summit at COP29

Wednesday: Wes Streeting addresses NHS Providers conference

Thursday: Climate Action Tracker annual update

OECD International Migration Outlook

Friday: Jake Paul v Mike Tyson

Supermoon

Sunday: Uranus closest to Earth

Part 5 of Year Of The Expert – So What’s Stopping You? deals with any final doubts and niggles before we bring the curtain down. This week we address an email from Jill who writes:

“What if they ask a question I simply don’t know the answer to? This has happened to a colleague and it still haunts the department.”

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“No other country has anything like this. Public service broadcasters lie at the heart of our social and cultural life, and they are worth fighting for. And, to be frank, the fight is on.” 

Samir Shah

The “fight is on” for the future of British programming at the Beeb, says the corporation’s new Chair in his first big speech.

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“In case you haven’t come across BBC Verify, it is that pompous team of BBC fact checkers who the news bulletins switch to when they want to reassure viewers that something they are about to tell you really is true, seemingly oblivious to the corollary that the rest of the channel’s output must by extension be BBC Unverified.”

The FT’s Robert Shrimsley takes a waspish swipe at BBC Verify

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BBC Radio 4 Today’s Mishal Husain received the prestigious Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.

And the next morning they surprised her by talking about it on air. The image below shows her reaction…

Footnotes:

On this day: Yasser Arafat died in hospital in Paris, aged 75, on this day in 2004.

Weather: 11 degrees in Hartlepool, 12 degrees in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and 10 degrees in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mutts:

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