Media Training Update w/c 27th October

Edition 513

Good morning, it’s Monday 27th October.

Part 2 of FAQs from the app.

💬 “I’ve been told to always ask what the first question is going to be. Good advice?”


💬 “I’m assuming notes are OK for radio interviews?”

(And we need your help with this third one:)


💬 “Why is a green room called a green room?”

A postscript to last week’s question – can I ask for a fee?

I quoted numbers like £80, £100, £150. A couple of producers have reported these are a little on the generous side.

I’m told one national network (which shall remain nameless) continues to offer a paltry £35, a rate unchanged in over 20 years.

The Week Ahead:

Monday: Donald Trump begins trip to Japan

Dozens due in court charged over Palestine Action support


Tuesday: Rachel Reeves addresses Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh


Wednesday: Government delivery plan for Sixth Carbon Budget due

Results from Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta


Thursday: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in South Korea

Results from Apple, Amazon and Shell

Friday:  ‘Blue Book’ of UK national accounts statistics published ahead of next month’s Budget


Saturday: New US tariffs on Chinese goods and trucks due to be imposed

Sunday: Women’s Cricket World Cup final

Enjoyed last week’s episode of the Media Confidential pod in which Rusbridger and Barber are grilled by broadcast journalism students.


Topics include: AI in newsrooms, covering Gaza with fairness, whether China is being underreported on, and imposter syndrome in the media world.

The pair remain painfully stilted, but they are such newsroom heavyweights it’s worth perservering.

LISTEN HERE
(or wherever you get your podcasts)

We wrote last week about the exodus of Pentagon reporters due to their refusal to agree to a new set of restrictive policies.


CBS Pentagon Reporter Eleanor Watson has written about the end of the broadcaster’s 60 year stretch of reporting from the iconic building:

During D-Day, CBS News radio correspondent Joseph F. McCaffrey reported live from the Pentagon about the strategy and General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s background.

“Most of the plotting, the working, the split-haired timing was done in this building,” McCaffrey reported on June 6, 1944. “Although only a chosen few knew when the day would arrive, the atmosphere here in the Pentagon building has been tense for several weeks.” 


READ MORE
LISTEN TO 1944 BROADCAST


Postscript: The defense department has announced a “next generation of the Pentagon press corps” featuring 60 journalists from far-right outlets.

READ MORE

Footnotes: 


On this day: An estimated 6,000 marchers demonstrating against the Vietnam War faced up to police outside the US Embassy in London on this day in 1968.

(Not the Dog) Photo:


We spent a chunk of last week in Benasque working with the next generation of particle physicists. 

It’s an incredibly beautiful part of Spain and this is from an early morning walk:

Fear not, the dogs will return next week.

Be part of the MMB. Thoughts on this week’s content, or interviews you’ve seen, heard, or (best of all) done, please let us know.

Back next Monday. Have a brilliant week.

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