Bridget Osborne
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Video: Local Elections and Mayoral Referendums
BBC political correspondent Mike Sergeant told journalists at a CoJo Wednesday lunchtime session that there is potentially a big change coming to the way local government operates in England. As ten of the country's biggest cities are voting to decide whether they want to elect their own mayo...
Video: Understanding the Economy
Not surprisingly perhaps, there's been a huge shift in people's interest in the state of the economy. Far more people now say they are interested than was the case prior to the 2008 financial crisis, and far greater numbers say they follow news about the economy daily. But a very large minori...
Video: NHS Changes
Nick Seddon - 'nobody actually knows what privatisation means' "Most other countries think that the debate we're having here is really weird," Nick Seddon, deputy director of the independent think-tank Reform, told a College of Journalism lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 29 February. Talking ...
Video: Reporting Russia
Russian Presidential Election BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall described the anxieties and criticisms expressed to her and other Russian specialists who were invited to a high-level conference in Russia last autumn. She says she and many of her colleagues were struck by how many...
Event: Understanding the Economy
Understanding the Economy, Wednesday 7 March How much does the audience understand about the economy? Do we have to explain every single time the ECB, BIS, EIB, ESM, GDP, CPI, OECD, IMF alphabet soup which inevitably sustains business/economy stories? Do you know your Volcker rule from you...
Video: Police and Journalists
"Contacts with the police are amongst the most important we have, as reporters, and among the most difficult to cultivate and maintain," BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw told a College of Journalism lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 22 February. "We've got to get this relationship betwee...
Event: NHS Reform
Wednesday 29 February 2012, BBC Television Centre, London Is NHS reform a political story or a practical one? Can you say, hand on heart, that you understand all the proposals and their implications? And is the BBC missing important aspects of this story? Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News health co...
Video: Reporting the Olympic/Jubilee Year
Does the BBC risk boring the audience with too much Olympic or Jubilee coverage? And what happens if there's a major news story at the same time? "Don't be taken in by the Radio 4 audience that turns up for a gardening programme on a wet afternoon," said head of BBC News programmes Stephen Mit...
Video: Reporting Russia
Russia's presidential elections are due to take place on 4 March. When BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendal recently visited the country, she found politicians and administrators who are usually loyal to Putin expressing discontent that he is almost certain to return as president. In...
Event: Police and Journalists
Wednesday 22 February 2012, Television Centre, London The "close relationship" between parts of Scotland Yard and the media has caused "serious harm," according to Elizabeth Filkin's recent report. "Watch out" for "late night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch - th...
Event: Reporting Russia
Reporting Russia Bush House, Thursday 16 February Russia's presidential elections are due on 4 March. How serious is the opposition to Putin? How significant is the strength of the economy in these elections? And what role is Russia playing in Syria and Iran? In a lunchtime seminar Jamie C...
Event: Reporting the Olympic/Jubilee Year
Reporting the Olympic/Jubilee Year BBC Television Centre, Wednesday 15 February 2012 is a big year for BBC News, in sheer organisational terms. So what's the plan for covering the Olympics and the Royal Jubilee? In this CoJo lunchtime seminar, Raymond Snoddy, presenter of Newswatch, talks ...
Video: Reporting Iran
Iran is moving up the news agenda; it's certainly moving up Israel's agenda. However, late last year BBC Global News director Peter Horrocks warned of the difficulties facing BBC journalists: "We are seeing the levels of intimidation and bullying as well as attempts to interfere in our indepen...
Event: Reporting Iran
Iran is moving up the news agenda; it's certainly moving up Israel's agenda. With parliamentary elections due in March, Robin Lustig, presenter of The World Tonight on Radio 4, talks to BBC experts on Iran: James Reynolds, BBC Iran correspondent Sadeq Saba, head of BBC Persian Service. ...
Video: Breaking News on Twitter
What's the quickest way to get a news story to your audience? The answer used to be that the reporter would ring a key person in the newsroom who would disseminate it to other BBC journalists on the BBC's internal systems and alert all news outlets. Now the answer is Twitter. That creates as ...
Video: Deepening Crisis in Syria
The BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, tweets that what is happening in Syria is "not a war but in places beginning to look like one". What has been quite a specialised interest among journalists who report on world affairs or work in the BBC's global media is suddenly much higher up the...
Event: Deepening Crisis in Syria
How big a story is Syria? Is the country moving to all-out civil war? What discussions are going on behind the scenes in Saudi Arabia, the US, the UN, the Arab League, Lebanon, Israel, Russia and Iran? We're now describing the situation in Syria as a 'deepening crisis'. Do you know enough ab...
Video: Reporting Race
Since the Stephen Lawrence court case there has been a raft of stories which one way or another concern race. Stephen Lawrence's murder and the whole 18-year saga of his parents' fight for justice and all that that entailed has been described as a 'Rosa Parks moment' in British history. So wh...
Mandelson v Robbie: battle of the interviews
I find myself guilty of having made false promises. When I set out to review all five radio interviews nominated for the Sony Awards' Best Interview category, I assumed that if they were that good they'd be on the internet somewhere. Danny Baker, John Humphrys and Jeremy Vine's interviews wer...
John Humphrys gets his man (or mongoose)
This is the third of five pieces reviewing the Best Interview nominees for this year's Sony Awards, the winner of which will be announced in London on 9 May. The writer is running the BBC College of Journalism's Art of the Interview season. Listening to John Humphrys' interview with Julian Ass...
