Media Training Update w/c 14th July

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Good morning, it’s Monday 14th July

Kicking off this week with a newsroom flashback…

Stories scheduled for the next seven days:

Today: Abuse redress measure considered at Church of England General Synod.

Donald Trump to make ‘major announcement’ on Russia.

Tuesday: Rachel Reeves delivers Mansion House speech.

Sentencing for pair guilty over Sycamore Gap tree felling.

Wednesday:  UK inflation data.

Thursday: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visits London to sign a bilateral cooperation treaty.

UK employment and wage statistics; 

Friday: BBC Proms begins.

Saturday: National March for Palestine demonstration in London following Palestine Action proscription.

Sunday: Final round of The Open.

Elections in Japan’s upper house.

Shark Week begins. 

“I haven’t got an answer to the existential crisis facing journalism in this country…I just know it’s an existential crisis.”

Martin Lewis

Fascinating interview with Martin Lewis in Londoncentric on how the incentives to chase online clicks at all costs are destroying public trust in local papers.

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“I encourage all commentators to engage their brains before they open their mouths, as they may otherwise land themselves and their organisations in hot water”

Justice Christopher Beale

Australian radio show The Kyle and Jackie O Show sails close to the wind. As a radio nerd I listen to their output quite a bit – it’s brilliantly original and I’m constantly left open-mouthed at what they can get away with. But even by their standards, on-air comments about the Erin Patterson mushroom poisoning trial make an appointment with an unimpressed judge almost inevitable. 

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News In Brief

Former BBC News chief James Harding will deliver the annual Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture. He’s the founder of Tortoise Media and now editor-in-chief of The Observer.

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Dip back into Year Of The Expert…

Footnotes:

Recommendations: Let’s try something new. What did you read, watch or listen to last week you think readers might find interesting? (I’ll kick off with the 3-part Live Aid doc on the BBC IPlayer. Loved it.)

On this day: About 500 people were involved in scuffles as Parisians celebrated the bicentenary of the French Revolution on this day in 1989.

Monday weather: Canterbury – 26 and sunny. Glasgow – 20 with the chance of thundery showers.

Mutts: 2018…

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Have a great week.

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