https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:25:20 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss In recent months the Newsnight website has been growing like Leylandii. Podcasts, vodcasts, blog, forum etc. And as result of this rapid organic growth it's become a bit unruly. Some of you aren't impressed. Ian Mc sent us this -... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/redesign_newsnights_website.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/redesign_newsnights_website.html Newsnight Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:25:20 +0000 One of our concerns in covering today's events has been to make sure traffic load to the News website doesn't cause problems for our users. So far our technical team have successfully made sure it hasn't, but traffic certainly has... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/managing_demand.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/managing_demand.html BBC News website Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:40:48 +0000 A correspondent to the debate on the doctored photographs asks an interesting question about how the BBC is countering images from the public showing 'posed or inaccurate images'. We now receive around 300 images a week to our mailbox. Most... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/your_contributions.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/your_contributions.html BBC News website Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:20:27 +0000 As with any conflict, photographers are at the heart of the propaganda war - with both sides attempting to use the power of the camera to their own ends. Yesterday’s announcement by Reuters that it has withdrawn all the pictures... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/trusting_photos.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/trusting_photos.html BBC News website Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:59:12 +0000 Update. Update. STORYFix is now available as a news take-away video podcast (vodcast?). Get it via the BBC website, or, excitingly, from iTunes itself, although it's yet to displace Ricky Gervais - or Newsnight, for that matter - at or... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/vinegar_with_that.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/vinegar_with_that.html STORYfix Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:58:18 +0000 You would have had to have been in hibernation for the past few years to have missed the ascent of the environment up the news agenda. We have been suffering a heat wave this week that many people have found... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/environmental_changes.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/environmental_changes.html BBC journalists Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:30:40 +0000 The language of conflict has always given birth to euphemisms – collateral damage, kinetic targeting and ethnic cleansing are among the more recent entries to the argot of the times. George Orwell covered this ground in Politics and the English... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/in_the_buffer.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/in_the_buffer.html BBC News website Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:58:12 +0000 News developments in the Middle East routinely attract the attention of vigorous lobby groups on both sides. The conflict that has erupted so suddenly in Lebanon is no exception. We are accused of all sorts of twists and spins, such... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/graphic_images.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/graphic_images.html BBC News website Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:00:25 +0000 So we at the BBC have had one of those “organisational moments�, making substantial changes to how we run ourselves. Mark Thompson’s announcement included an emphasis on BBC Journalism as one of the main planks of what the BBC does... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/restructuring_the_bbc.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/restructuring_the_bbc.html Accountability Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:29:52 +0000 Words, as any journalist knows, can be loaded. One which has cropped up and led to lots of conversations in some blogs is "dhimmi". It's not a very well-known word (it's not in the Oxford English Dictionary, for instance), but... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/no_offence_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/no_offence_1.html Interactive News Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:49:19 +0000 It has been quite an experience. At the rehearsal the day before the interactive webcast with President Putin there were about 50 Russian officials in the hastily-made (but state of the art) studio, all giving their view on who should... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/webcasting_putin.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/webcasting_putin.html BBC News website Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:17:03 +0000 Preparations are under way for a webcast we are doing in the Kremlin with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, tomorrow, eight days before the opening of the G8 summit in St Petersburg. Former Moscow correspondent Bridget Kendall will be selecting... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/question_for_putin.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/question_for_putin.html Interactive News Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:17:08 +0000 We've long since ceased to be amazed at the near real-time delivery of news. And modern life has been conducted in the full gaze of the media for such a long time it's become routine. So it's difficult to imagine... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/wartime_reporting.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/wartime_reporting.html BBC News website Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:01:43 +0000 About a week ago, when we first asked people if they had family relatives who had fought in the Somme, we were surprised to get over 50 e-mails back within an hour. Now the page has just under 500 contributions,... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/somme_memories.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/somme_memories.html Interactive News Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:59:13 +0000 So this is the editors' blog. But what do we mean by "editor"? The first thing to note is that the person who edits a particular edition of a programme - what we call "the output editor" - is not... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/what_does_an_editor_do.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/what_does_an_editor_do.html Accountability Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:26:03 +0000