Science and Entertainment changes
If you're a regular visitor to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News website you might have noticed we've just changed a couple of the things in the subject headings on the left hand side of the pages.
The Science/Nature section has become . After some deliberation within our Science team, we've made the change because we think it better fits the nature of the coverage. It's increasingly difficult - and maybe even misleading - to separate reporting of the purely natural world from the political, human and economic issues that affect nature and are affected by it.
The Nature content will still be there, but the new name will be a better description of the broad range of issues and stories that the team reports on.
The other change we've made is to the , where we have added a link to a new .
One of the benefits of the merger of our online, TV and radio operations over the past year is that we have now got the ability to reflect the best of our journalism, wherever it originates, across more areas of output. So Razia Iqbal, already an established Arts correspondent in our TV and radio news operation, has just launched a new arts blog, and will be reporting regularly for the website as well as for broadcast outlets.
And one of our online producers on the Entertainment news desk, Caroline Briggs, has broadened her repertoire to include video journalism so she can work as a multimedia producer covering arts stories in text, stills, graphics, video or audio as the occasion demands. I hope you enjoy the new coverage - let us know what you think of it.
Comment number 1.
At 26th Sep 2008, SheffTim wrote:I think you need to make the Arts and Culture link a little more prominent, at first sight I assumed it was just a heading for the headlines below, not a link to a whole new section. Looks a good section at first sight too. Could you include a link to the Arts and Culture main section from the Explore the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ section at the bottom of the homepage?
Science and Environment: makes sense to me. It covers such a huge field that you may feel the need to have some sub categories within it at some point. (The Science Daily website`s system seems logical and easy to follow.)
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Comment number 2.
At 26th Sep 2008, alaninbelfast wrote:Need to update the SCIENCE/NATURE link down at the bottom right of the home page too! The one above ENTERTAINMENT.
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Comment number 3.
At 26th Sep 2008, dotconnect wrote:Re. the Science and Environment section link on the left... click on Education > League Tables, and it reverts back to Science and Nature.
I'm sure you're already onto it though..!
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Comment number 4.
At 26th Sep 2008, jon112uk wrote:Should 'environment' and 'science' be grouped together?
It implies that the all the announcements from 'environmental' groups attempting to create a climate of fear are related to science.
Couldn't the 'science' (eg the Large Hadron Collider) be put in with the technology creating a science and technology section and the 'environment' have it's own seperate tab?
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Comment number 5.
At 26th Sep 2008, SotonBlogger wrote:The new format does as you say more accurately reflect the content.
It is a shame however that the hard science content of the science section is so low. I guess this reflects the "Arts" background of your average Beeb journalist and is hence inevitable ?
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Comment number 6.
At 26th Sep 2008, alj_andy wrote:You say that you are removing 'Nature' from the news section because it's increasingly hard to separate nature from politics.
Surely this applies even more to the environment given all the recent interest in climate change?
The changes seem a little self-defeating to me.
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Comment number 7.
At 28th Sep 2008, bully_baiter wrote:This change seems as synthetic as the word "natural" that appeared on the labels of products simply to make them more acceptable to a gullible public. Changes to a label does nothing to give credibility to the content.
Why not have a completely separate heading for the natural world?
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Comment number 8.
At 29th Sep 2008, mistyevita wrote:Still don't do enough science reporting though.
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Comment number 9.
At 29th Sep 2008, alaninbelfast wrote:The section's still called Science/Nature on the home page (bottom section)
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Comment number 10.
At 30th Sep 2008, jACK wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 11.
At 30th Sep 2008, alaninbelfast wrote:Fixed now.
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Comment number 12.
At 15th Oct 2008, Doug wrote:4, jon:
Good point, except to carry it to the end we would have one "Everything" section. (Or perhaps, "Life, The Universe ..." ?)
The current controversy, as I watch it, involves politicos and scientists, so making a story an "Environment" item makes sense either way. And the collider isn't without its own political aspect: Big Science involves Big Costs, to be paid by Little Taxpayers, who often object. (Luddites! Off with their heads!)
Also, I've noticed that a science story will often appear in a regional section where applicable, but linking to it takes one to the science section. Good website design; problem solved (usually).
Doug
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Comment number 13.
At 20th Oct 2008, Sue_Aitch wrote:bbc.co.uk -brilliant for those of us who do have access to the web
But what of those who are still analogue only on their TV Sets, have no computer, and rely on Ceefax for these features?
Sport is always well covered by Ceefax as are Weather, Travel and Finance, so isn't there any way of adding a little more in the way of Enironment and Arts and Cultire content to Ceefax?
I notice that whilst entertainment gets 13 pages on Ceefax page 502-514, plus the Extra service of pages 520-530, Sci-Tech is all tied up together in eight sub pages on Ceefax page 154.
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