The Training Zone
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A War of Words
This is a Training Zone post. For the main blog click here For the past few years, the commercial radio sector has frequently hit out at various parts of the BBC – mainly Radios 1 and 2 – for what it said was too much duplication of what commercial stations were already providing. Radio 2,…
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A Crash Course in Media Law
A journalist is never really off duty. We live for this game, it’s a fact – and we often find it difficult to switch off from work. This very post is being written on my day off, having just witnessed a fairly interesting story on the Nottingham Ring Road. All very exciting stuff – at…
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Keep It Simple
This is a Training Zone post. For the main blog click here One of the biggest steps you’ll take from a training course to a real newsroom is coping with the sheer amount of information that’s thrown at you. But the real art is knowing how to turn that information into informative and entertaining radio.…
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Joined Up Radio
Well it’s been an interesting few weeks in the industry whilst I’ve been on my travels. But perhaps the most important development has been the apparent lessening of the threat to merge BBC Local Radio with Five Live. On Thursday, the BBC’s Chief Operating Officer Caroline Thomson gave an update on the BBC’s Delivering Quality First…
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Right Place, Right Time
This is a Training Zone post. For the main radio blog click here» Gimmicks and giveaways can get people talking about your radio station. They’re also an integral part of Sales and Promotion (S&P) – and if you’re looking to work in commercial radio it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the process. So hats…
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Libel Law Reforms : A Licence For Free Speech?
This is a Training Zone post. For the main radio blog click here» The libel law in England and Wales is among the toughest in Europe This week the Ministry of Justice published its plans to overhaul the law on libel. And for anyone training to be a journalist, this is stuff you really should be…
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Accountability – Right On Your Doorstep
BBC Radio Leicester : Original Journalism and And Accountability We all like to know how our taxes are spent. But getting the details isn’t always straightforwad. Thank goodness, then, for BBC Radio Leicester, which yesterday revealed the cost of policing a march by the English Defence League. The journalism behind this story wasn’t rocket science. The story came…
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Foot In The Door
This is a Training Zone post. For the main radio blog click here» So – you want to be a radio journalist? Really? During 2010 dozens of radio journalists in the commercial sector lost their jobs as the sector continued to consolidate. That means those journalists were on the jobs market, chasing the same…
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