- Amanda Farnsworth
- 8 Nov 06, 03:59 PM
If you look up my old blog entries, specifically one I wrote about feeling conflicted about the Six O'Clock News being shunted off to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two when big sporting events appeared, you will find it less of a surprise that I'm moving to set up a new sports news programme.
That means leaving the One and Six and going up a few floors to the Sports department. It's going to be on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One and start sometime next year. I shall continue to blog and I will be starting a debate on the web to solicit your ideas as to what you might like to see on the programme once I get my feet under the table. I am leaving one of the best jobs (and more importantly best teams) in journalism and I must admit I got a little teary-eyed when I told the team this morning.
But change and challenge is generally a good thing. A ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ correspondent once said to me, if you see an open door you should push it and see what's on the other side.
Amanda Farnsworth is editor of Inside Sport.
- Alistair Burnett
- 8 Nov 06, 01:11 PM
Our reporter Gabriel Gatehouse is joining the effort to clean up our green act.
Our colleagues at have got their ethical man, , who has been trying to change his lifestyle for some time now, but as the UN meets in Nairobi (did the delegates offset their flights I wonder?) to review progress on climate change, we decided to put our own Gabriel on a crash course to see how he could become greener in his lifestyle. He was given an assessment by the Earth Day organisation in the US (you can see how green you are ) and will be attempting to see how much he can change his lifestyle, how quickly.
One thing we are trying to do with this is to provide an insight into how much lifestyles can be changed in order to reduce how much of the Earth's resources we each consume and how much carbon we produce, but we are also trying to do it in a lively way given our coverage of climate change and environmental issues has often been criticised for being dull and austere.
Not sure if this will work, but let us know. We got one immediate reaction after Monday night's programme - Justin Rowlatt from Newsnight came round to tell us he was there first ….
Alistair Burnett is editor of the World Tonight
- Peter Rippon
- 8 Nov 06, 10:23 AM
I need your help. For a programme committed to holding officials to account, testing argument and rigorous debate we sometimes have a problem with a more traditional form of news.... Crime. How much of it should we have in our programme?
When deciding whether to do a crime story it is easier if there is an issue attached: there's a terrorism angle, it says something about UK drug culture, there is a clear racial motive, the criminal justice system failed etc etc. But when its just a compelling, awful, human story it's much harder to judge.
Heart wrenching interviews with relatives can be deeply moving and powerful radio but what makes them news? We devote significant resources to crime stories so I would appreciate your thoughts.
Peter Rippon is editor of World at One, PM and Broadcasting House
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