Media Training Update w/c 12th May

Good morning. It’s Monday 12th May.

A truncated briefing this week – normal service resumes from the 19th.

“Things Learnt (Then Forgotten)” – Week 16.

How To Interview The President…

For “delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organisation after 17 years.”

Ann Telnaes, a cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit after editors killed this sketch criticising the Post owner and other media execs has now won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary.

News In Brief

Nick Robinson’s Political Thinking podcast is to be broadcast regularly on BBC Two at Friday lunchtimes:

“What the BBC is trying to do, and I hope Political Thinking does, is to say we can learn from the fact that we’re in a competitive market in which politicians don’t have to appear – that they have stories to tell, but we’re not partisan, and we’re not creeps, and we will ask proper questions.”

Guardian interview with Robinson: READ MORE

Channel 4 Chief Exec Alex Mahon is stepping down after 8 years.

READ MORE

Thanks to those who have got in touch about their experiences of appearing on podcasts for our new course component – The New Media Landscape.

We’re still keen to gather more insights. Please do get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

Footnotes:

On this day: The Labour leader John Smith died on this day in 1994.

Weather: 24 and sunny in Crete, which is where I’ll be when you read this.

Mutts: Leo very much on-brand…

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Have a super week.

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