24 Hours in the Life of 5 live
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|11:11 UK time, Monday, 21 February 2011
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The 5 live newsroom is a very, very busy place. There's always a programme on air, or a team working toward a broadcast, or someone frantically putting in calls on a breaking story. And that's 24 hours a day, every day of the week.
So, over the course of the next couple of weeks we will be putting up posts from a range of 5 live staff across the network to give you an insight into 24 hours in the life of 5 live. The idea is to introduce you to some of the people who work here - from a Broadcast Assistant all the way up to our Deputy Head of News - and give you an insight into the role they play in keeping the network ticking over.
I began the process of begging blog posts from my colleagues a couple of weeks ago and asked each blogger to write about a day of their choosing in that period. Each post had to explain what they did, who they talked to, decisions they made, frustrations they encountered and how they contributed to what ultimately went out on air.
We also asked the entire newsroom to consent to being filmed as part of the time lapse video above - which charts the tides of the newsroom - as people arrive and depart, and programmes go out - over 24 hours.
The first post will go up tomorrow morning - hopefully in synch with the arrival of Breakfast's assistant editor, Chris Hunter, at 4.30am. I hope that you find these posts informative, interesting and, sporadically, funny. But more importantly that it gives you a look at the day-to-day life of 5 live by the people who work here.
Imogen Crump is a senior broadcast journalist with 5 live.
Comment number 1.
At 11:23 21st Feb 2011, carrie wrote:That's more like how this blog should be used.
(By the way, congratulations to Nolan and the team for keeping the Libyan news last night such compelling listening. Much better than those switch-off dire human interest stories he usually loves to do.)
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Comment number 2.
At 14:15 21st Feb 2011, jacmak wrote:.Just to say that although the Newsroom is very, very, busy over a period of 24 hours, the successive staff within it can only be that busy for much shorter periods. Since much of the 24hr time lapse is repeating the generality of any say, any 8 hr period, then a time lapse of that period could provide viewers with fullest service you want them to enjoy'. Eight hoiurs can give a better picture of 24hrs then this 24hrs itself. That must be magik!
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Comment number 3.
At 19:30 21st Feb 2011, Jackstumps wrote:Excellent. Just excellent.
Jack
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Comment number 4.
At 23:03 21st Feb 2011, Fedster wrote:Excellant!!! Something at last to look forward to, this is the wy blogging should be done and hopefully the 5live blog will become increasingly popular!!!
BTW Imogen you may have noticed there will be a special piece on late kick of titled a Life of a radio commentator featuring BBC Radio Sheffield's Andy Giddings and Keith Edwards https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_utd/9403826.stm maybe you could do a blog equivalent for 5live featuring the legends Alan Green and John Murray.
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Comment number 5.
At 12:10 22nd Feb 2011, Imogen Crump wrote:Thank you all for your comments.
Fedster - I have gone and had a look at the link you posted. It's great! I've asked Eleanor Oldroyd, who presents 5 live Sport, to write a blog post for this series which will be published a bit further down the track. Not quite as slick as Radio Sheffield's video of their day. But hopefully as interesting and informative.
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At 17:24 22nd Feb 2011, carrie wrote:Listeners need somewhere to comment on current articles on the Best Bits site. Incidentally, the reason I say this is because Jacqui Smith is most definitely not worth being on it.
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