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Big news from small cameras
Elise Wicker
Once upon a time, if I had told you that a small camera available from most electrical stores would - in the right hands - provide the BBC's entire Global News division with regular, unique news video footage from around the world, you'd have been within your rights to look sceptical. But ...
Event: Connecting Communities Conference - Salford 2012
David Hayward
is a video consultant. Twitter: @david_hbm
How can mainstream and community media co-exist and collaborate? The BBC College of Journalism is holding a major conference to explore the subject at the BBC's new offices at MediaCityUK in Salford on 24 May. For a number of years there has been growing engagement between mainstream media ...
BBC local radio: don't cut the programmes, cut 'the suits'
Torin Douglas
is the BBC's media correspondent. Twitter: @BBCTorinD
John Myers, an independent media consultant and Chief Executive of the Radio Academy, talked to me about his recent report on BBC Local Radio. He was asked to investigate the potential for efficiency savings following the recommendation of budget cuts in the BBC's own Delivering Quality First ex...
Being bathed by a stranger: all part of my journalism training
Hannah Livingston
Imagine going to see a public performance and then finding that a) you're the only person in the audience and b) the performance involves a complete stranger bathing you. It all started innocently enough, as part of the eight months I've spent in BBC News in Scotland, firstly writing for the w...
Why is appearing on breakfast TV like a cataract operation?
Charles Miller
edits this blog. Twitter: @chblm
As a programme-maker, I spend my time persuading people to put themselves into the hands of the BBC. I don't often experience the process from the other end, but I did this weekend: A friendly sounding woman calls me and says "we'd love to have you on breakfast television tomorrow morning to ...
Schools Questions and Answers competition
Matthew Eltringham
is editor of the BBC College of Journalism website. Twitter: @mattsays
BBC producer Rob Pearson outlines a UK-wide schools competition: The opportunity to hold decision-makers to account is one that youngsters get all too rarely. But for the past two months I've been working on a project that will hopefully allow them to do just that. 'Schools Questions and A...
Border controls row: look at the numbers
Michael Blastland
is a journalist, author and creator of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less
I can't help feeling something is missing from the border controls debate. Ah, I know: proportion. The usual thing. So, just in case anyone would like to pursue this, a few pointers to some numbers. The Home Office compiles a good set, easy to dig into. And without much effort you can look up:...
My 9/11: 'There were audible screams in the newsroom for perhaps the first and only time'
Chris Walton
is project editor in digital media at the BBC College of Journalism
I was sitting in the Breakfast Day Editor's chair munching a lunchtime sandwich at about 1.55pm on 11 September 2001, mulling over the prospects with the usual anxiety of how the hell I was going to fill three hours of telly the next morning from an unpromising news diary. The reporter Paul We...
My 9/11: to Manhattan in stretch limos festooned with disco lights
Andrew Roy
is the BBC's world editor
We rolled into Manhattan in a convoy of stag-night stretch limos hired in Montreal and driven by large, silent east Europeans. As we entered New York on Friday 14 September, the brakes began to fail on our vehicle, but it wasn't a problem: the streets were eerily empty as we drove through the ...
My 9/11: In an international crisis, a local station is a trusted friend to its audience
Simon Ford
It was 2.15pm in Leicester and 9.15am in New York as I came in for my late newsreading shift. I'd heard the bulletin as I drove to BBC Radio Leicester. All that was known was that an aircraft had flown into a skyscraper in New York. A colleague who'd read the 2pm news handed over to me. T...
