Media Training update w/c 7th July

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Good morning, it’s Monday 7th July

Kicking off this week with a brilliant example of the power of specifics…

Stories scheduled for the next seven days:

Today: St Paul’s service to mark the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings.

Donald Trump hosts Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

Tuesday: Emmanuel Macron begins three-day state visit to the UK with address to Parliament and State Banquet.

Post Office Horizon inquiry publishes volume one report.

Wednesday: MPs vote on watered-down Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill.

England and Wales play at Women’s Euros.

Thursday: ECHR Grand Chamber ruling in Caster Semenya sporting regulations case.

Friday: UK monthly GDP estimate.

Church of England General Synod begins;

Saturday: Wimbledon Finals weekend.

Sunday: England play Wales at Women’s Euros.

FIFA Club World Cup final.

“He was on the ground at Suez in 1956, covered wars in the Middle East and Vietnam, and was jailed by Idi Amin. If he had the air of a man who had seen conflict and lived to tell the tale, there was good reason for it.”

Foreign Correspondent and News at Ten anchor Sandy Gall has died at the age of 97. “His was a great life, generously and courageously lived,” said his family in announcing his death, and it’s hard to disagree. 

Pick of the obits:

Guardian

Times

Another week, another BBC crisis. (We all know the playbook by now…)

Step 1) A mistake is made.

Step 2) The Mail, Telegraph et al whip it into “a very big deal”

Step 3) Phone-it-in-outrage is commissioned from the usual suspects to feed the story

Step 4) Abject crisis management from BBC comms makes the situation worse

And lo, here we all are. A (by all accounts) pretty decent DG hanging onto his job.

“Right now, he (Tim Davie) is central to the BBC’s survival. The futures of the licence fee, World Service funding and public service media in general are under threat. There is no plausible successor to take up the BBC’s poisoned chalice.”

Good stuff from Roger Bolton on (what nobody should be calling) Glastogate.

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July’s pick of the Year Of The Expert audio diaries are now on the website. For this month we’ve picked out chapters on introverts on air and email pitches to journalists.

Well worth dipping your toe back in…

Source: Reuters Institute

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Footnotes:

On this day: A series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network killed 52 and injured over 800 exactly 20 years ago.

Monday weather: Durham – 18 and cloudy. Truro – 17 and sunny.

Mutts: Hairy idiots…

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