Tagged with: Briefing
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Health, promises and giving a d***
Michael Blastland
is a journalist, author and creator of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less
David Cameron has broken his electoral promise to increase health spending, says Ed Miliband. David Cameron says he will not break his promise to increase health spending, but will guarantee it. Up or down? Will he, won't he? Honest or not? Here is one that will run and run, since much dep...
The Toughest (?) Quiz of the Year
Kevin Marsh
is director of OffspinMedia and a former Today editor
Quizzes are funny things - and not always funny ha-ha. We like them for all sorts of reasons; to show off; concede our socially acceptable ignorance of science and numbers; persuade our parents their money and attention on our education wasn't wasted. CoJo Quiz of the Year Delve the...
Voting, PR and AV
Kevin Marsh
is director of OffspinMedia and a former Today editor
In May 2011, if the coalition government has its way, we'll all have the opportunity to vote in a referendum on changing the way we elect Westminster MPs. PR and Alternative Vote BBC Head of Political Research, David Cowling, briefs on AV and how it differs from PR. Click to watch...
CoJo News Debrief with Peter Hunt
Angelique Halliburton
Talk about being in the right place at the right time; well, sort of. Peter Hunt, the BBC's Royal Correspondent, got the call about the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton when he was at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London attending the 7 July bombings inquest. A few mo...
Video Briefing: Opinion and the spending review
Kevin Marsh
is director of OffspinMedia and a former Today editor
It's fair to say the jury - aka the electorate - is still out on the detail of the spending review ... though it certainly knows more now than it did before the election. Add to that uncertainty about and the way the economy will go and it's clear that the opinion polls will provide crucial re...
Video Guide: the social dimension of the spending review
Kevin Marsh
is director of OffspinMedia and a former Today editor
What will be the medium- and long-term stories of the Spending Review? Will they be unrelenting in their accounts of loss and victims? Or will we - journalists - be able to capture a more complete picture of the way society and public provision changes? The Social Dimension BBC ...
Video Guide: politics after the spending review
Kevin Marsh
is director of OffspinMedia and a former Today editor
So ... that's it then. The spending review's over and now it's all about reporting the cuts - and everyone knows how to do that. The Spending Review BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson talks about the issues for journalists as plans become reality. Click to watch the slideshow ...
CoJo News Debrief with Jon Sopel
Angelique Halliburton
BBC News presenter Jon Sopel has fronted some of the BBC's biggest breaking news stories, both at home and abroad. In July 2010, he was sent to the small town of Rothbury in Northumberland to cover a police hunt for a suspected killer, Raoul Moat. In this CoJo News Debrief, Jon talks about ho...
The Media Show: The Paywall Debate
Jon Jacob
Editor, About the BBC Blog
Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger and Sunday Times Editor John Witherow debated 'paywalls' for newspaper content during a recording for BBC Radio 4's The Media Show. In this guest blog for the BBC College of Journalism, presenter Steve Hewlett sums up the discussion: We will all be hearing...
Minding Ian Dury's language
Fiona Anderson
I was amused to hear about ongoing and in-depth research for an Ofcom report, due out this spring, into the acceptability of bad language on television. The poor researchers have had to sit in people's front rooms holding up cue cards with rude words written on them, noting the reaction f...
