Media Training Update w/c 2nd December

Morning all, it’s Monday 2nd December. (You’re on the home straight.)

After 46 audio diaries, our work is done.

The week ahead:

Monday: Keir Starmer delivers foreign policy speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year

Tuesday: UN General Assembly meets on Gaza

Turner Prize

Wednesday: Court of Session hearing on challenge to Winter Fuel Payment reductions

Thursday: Annual stats on police use of force

Baby names 2023

Friday: Vladimir Putin visits Belarus for talks with Alexander Lukashenko

Saturday: Pope Francis inducts 21 new cardinals at consistory

Sunday: Taylor Swift’s final Eras Tour show in Vancouver

Results of last weeks poll. Which of these is the best Top Line?

143 of you took the time to vote (thank you), and it was actually pretty close.

81 opted for The Times

62 opted for The Guardian

We reported last week that Mishal Husain is to leave Today after an 11 year stint.

We now know where she is heading: Bloomberg Weekend Edition, as their Editor-at-Large. According to the press release she will,

“…host a brand new flagship multi-platform global interview series, to be launched with audio, video and in digital, as a central feature of Bloomberg’s recently launched weekend offering.”

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Journalists at the Guardian Media Group will go on strike for 48 hours from Wednesday over the planned sale of the Observer newspaper to Tortoise.

The NUJ motion said: 

“We believe the transfer is a betrayal of the Scott Trust’s commitment to the Observer as part of the Guardian News and Media family. The trust should protect a vital element of the UK and international liberal media and not seek to throw it overboard.”

“Just when Twitter appeared to be losing its lustre for the mainstream media elite, along comes an account that has got Britain’s biggest newsroom talking.”

Deadline’s Jake Kanter on a waspish anonymous poster from inside the BBC.

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Footnotes:

On this day: Nick Leeson was sentenced for financial dealings which contributed to the fall of Britain’s oldest merchant bank on this day in 1995.

Weather: 9 degrees in Nuneaton, 10 degrees in Norwich, 25 degrees in Nairobi.

Mutts: Those teeth…

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Have a brilliant week. Back for one more next Monday.

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