Media Training Update w/c 9th September

We’re back. While we were away…

“A BBC news reporter just stood outside the BBC on BBC Breakfast saying that the BBC had not responded to a request for comment from BBC News about a BBC presenter being axed from a BBC show.“

Scott Bryan

Four new audio diaries take you inside radio and TV studios…

Part 4 of Year of The Expert kicks off with the lessons learnt sitting in on many a Focus Group…

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Good morning. It’s Monday 9th September. We hope you’re happy and well.

Monday: Module 3 hearings begin in Covid Inquiry

New Apple iPhone launched

Tuesday: the first public hearings in the inquiry into nurse Lucy Letby

First inmates are freed under the controversial Early Release Scheme

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump meet in Philadelphia for their first and possibly only debate

Wednesday: Monthly GDP figures

Thursday: NHS key services and waiting time data

Harvey Weinstein in court in New York

Friday: Sir Keir Starmer will travel to Washington for a bilateral meeting with President Biden

Funeral for Sven-Goran Eriksson

Saturday: Liberal Democrats Autumn Conference

New Strictly Come Dancing series starts

57 days until the US Elections. Our eyes and ears will be on the media…

From Reuters:

32% of Americans say they trust most news most of the time. (However, 47% say they trust the news they use, a sign of polarisation.)

36% of left-leaning Americans say they find it difficult to identify trustworthy news on X

29% of Americans say they use YouTube for news

68% of our US respondents who watch news videos regularly say they tend to watch them on social and video platforms.

BBC financial woes…

Part 1: The World Service is at stake over the BBC’s funding ‘pinch point’ according to its boss Jonathan Munro, who says the broadcaster is in ‘critical’ negotiations with the Foreign Office to secure more money before the Labour budget in October.

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Part 2: With 500,000 households a year cancelling their TV licence, the corporation may have to do less with less to survive. Jim Waterson’s piece in the Observer is an interesting read, though the eye-catching headline about a possible merger with Channel 4 is unlikely. 

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Footnotes:

On this day: Chairman Mao Zedong died at the age of 82 on this day in 1976.

Weather: 17 degrees in Oxford. 15 degrees in Hexham. 31 degrees in Athens.

Coffee? Inside Edge is in Durham, Exeter and London this week.

Um, is one of them Kevin McCloud?

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Mutts: The obligatory dog photo returns for a new season. (Stan needs his beard combed…)

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