Media Training update w/c 14th October

Good morning. It’s Monday 14th October. The week ahead:

Monday: GB Investment Summit

Inquiry opens into the Novichok poisoning death of Dawn Sturgess

Nobel economics prize winner announced

Tuesday: Horizon IT director at Post Office inquiry

UK labour market statistics

Wednesday: Assisted dying bill introduced in the Commons

RIBA Stirling Prize Awards

Thursday: Premier League holds official clubs meeting

EU Summit Brussels (and Friday) 

Friday: King Charles in Australia (then Samoa) 

Saturday: Joni Mitchell performs in California 

Sunday: United States Grand Prix 

“We’ve received pushback to last week’s audio diary – which is rare. Usually we don’t get much reaction at all, which I take to mean everyone is delighted…”

Robust challenge from listeners following my advice to ignore the latest AI innovation. (It allows you to read notes from your laptop screen when undertaking a TV interview, yet give the impression to the viewer that you are looking at the camera).

“I would 100% use this feature. My constant dread in interviews is forgetting stats. To have just these in front of me means I can relax and actually try to perform well rather than just try to recall the numbers.” 

“It’s not about a script. It’s about my Top Line, a couple of specifics. Some areas to steer away from.” 

Both interventions get short shrift…

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“The owner of the New York Sun is the leading contender to buy the Daily Telegraph, but his fighting talk about the situation in the Middle East has sparked alarm among staff about the editorial influence and impartiality of their potential new owner.”

I’ve been meaning to link to this for a while, but The Guardian (and others) are right to ask…

Who is Dovid Efune, leading contender to buy Daily Telegraph?

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Changes at BBC 5 Live.

Olympian Jeanette Kwakye is to present the weekend breakfast programme alongside Eleanor Oldroyd on Saturdays and Gordon Smart on Sundays.

After a decade presenting Drive, Tony Livesey is moving to the late evening show. Chris Warburton will now present with Clare McDonnell.

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“What!? No quiz question?” Harsh but fair from reader Dylan.

(He’s not wrong. We did miss last week. But the quiz is back…)

According to Press Gazette, an email sent by Birmingham Live editor Graeme Brown suggested journalists should file at least how many stories per day unless they were newsgathering outside of the office?

Answer in the footnotes.

James Cox, who presented the Radio 4’s The World This Weekend for more than a decade has died.

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Footnotes:

On this day: Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were named the winners of the Nobel peace prize on this day in 1994.

Quiz: The answer is a whopping eight stories a day. READ MORE

Weather: 15 degrees in Deal, 11 degrees in Derby, 27 degrees in Denver.

Coffee? Inside Edge is in Brighton, Birmingham and London this week

Mutts: Another day at the coal face…

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Have a brilliant week.

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