journalism
Channel 4 News announces new Facebook Watch show
Channel 4 News has announced a partnership with Facebook to produce a new weekly news show.
Uncovered is an in-depth news and analysis programme that will see Channel 4 News correspondents shedding light on unreported stories in 10-minute episodes.
The series will focus on one major international issue each week and is due to premier in the new year.
It is the latest commission for Facebook’s funded news shows initiative to tackle fake news and will be available on Facebook Watch.
So you want to work in observational documentaries?
At an RTS Futures event in early November, National Film and Television School head of documentaries Peter Dale chaired a debate on what it takes to be a great observational documentary film-maker.
One of the panel, Lizzie Kempton, was the assistant producer on the Grierson Award-winning BBC Two film, How to Die: Simon’s Choice, which tells the story of a man with an aggressive form of motor neurone disease who chooses to end his life.
Ben Philip Interviews BBC Investigative Journalist Mark Daly
Photography by: Éva Ibolya Sibinszki
Is social media a threat to quality journalism?
Then with the advent of 24-hour news channels and the internet, news became more immediate. The only delay between a story breaking, and you being able to read about it, was the time it took for a journalist to get on the scene and report.
Dorothy Byrne’s TV Diary
TV current affairs and documentaries are obsessed with the new. That means we can ignore problems which continue over decades. My month begins with watching Channel 5’s Raped: My Story for a panel I’m on.
It’s a really daring programme precisely because there is nothing new in it; it is a devastating document of the way rape ruins lives and survivors are denied justice. And that’s a story we need to tell again and again.
How to become a news camera operator
Channel 4 News cameraman Dai Baker has travelled around the world, including a ten-year stint at the broadcaster’s Washington bureau.
He’s now based in Wales where, alongside a reporter and producer, he films and edits news packages from Wales and the West Country - although he’s always on standby to go further afield, covering the inauguration of Donald Trump in the USA and the political protests in Barcelona (see video below).
My RTS Bursary Diary: Paula Melissa Ugochukwu
When I learnt of the Royal Television Society (RTS) bursaries in 2015, I knew I had to apply. Any organisation actively committed to the diversification and inclusion of underrepresented groups within the British media will always hold a place in my heart. Plus, being part of the RTS is a great opportunity to network with media industry leaders - an opportunity that I was very unlikely to stumble across as a young black woman, from a low-income family.
Charlotte Moore delivers the Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture 2018
Charlotte Moore to deliver the Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture 2018
This year's Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture, promoted by The Media Society and the Royal Television Society will take place on Thursday 11 October 2018 at the University of Westminster. The speaker this year is BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore.
Ashley John-Baptiste: Giving a voice to the voiceless
"Working on Grenfell was… oh gosh, how do I even articulate that?” asks Ashley John-Baptiste, the 28-year-old reporter who led the coverage of the tower block fire and its devastating aftermath for BBC Two’s Victoria Derbyshire programme last summer. “It was hard to switch off,” he admits.
Originally dispatched to west London to find residents who would speak to Victoria Derbyshire live on the programme, he revisited the area multiple times, meeting survivors and building a rapport with the community.