All Freelancers articles – Page 58
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Soho dry-hire firm turns to post
Soho dry-hire facility Morphos is to reinvent itself as a fully fledged post house from next month, writes Will Strauss. Former VTR director Bill Scanlon has been brought in to oversee
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BBC signs ideas code
BBC Radio has signed up to a code of practice designed to prevent the theft of ideas proposed by freelancers and independents, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The Code of Practice for the Submission
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£200,000 FOR SKILLSET
Training body Skillset has been awarded a grant of almost£200,000 from the London Development Agency for training initiatives within the capital. Part of the money is earmarked to organise another
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B+ Trade Secrets: Training
Joel Meadows takes in two very different seats of learning to see how much TV training has changed over the years
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BBC SUBSIDISES COURSES.
BBC training and development is to subsidise a range of courses by 60 per cent for freelancers from April. Complementing the current Skillset-funded training available to freelancers, the areas to be
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NEWS ANALYSIS - State of the union.
Could Bectu, active in disputes at the BBC, MTV and Carlton, be growing in importance? Membership may be rising but the union must adapt to technological and labour market changes and promote itself better.
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BBC and Bectu both claim strike victory
Both sides claimed victory after last Saturday's 24-hour BBC strike as a spokeswoman said the action had 'no effect on the audience enjoyment of programmes', while Bectu claimed the action resulted
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Both sides claim victory after 24-hour BBC strike
Further action possible as 15th December deadline looms
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CENSUS - Who's working the system
The television and radio industries have never been quantified before. But the Audio Visual Industries Training Group has done the first ever census of TV and radio staff. The survey was taken in May and shows the industry is male-dominated, with many min
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Minorities 'betrayed' by broadcast sector
The broadcast industry employs more than 115,000 people, according to the first ever census of the TV, radio and new media industries - far more than the government's previous estimate of
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TV industry 'no better than police in betrayal of ethnic minorites' says union boss
Bectu boss reacts to AVITG/DCMS census which shows less than nine per cent of TV staff employed from ethnic backgrounds
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SKILLSET SPOTLIGHTS FREELANCERS' WORK PATTERNS
Broadcast industry training body Skillset is conducting an industry-wide survey of freelancers in an attempt to identify work patterns and skill gaps. The project updates a previous survey conducted in 1993/94
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REVOLUTION - produxion.com
With more than 1,400 independent production companies in the UK, in addition to the thousands of service companies and contractors in the UK television industry, produxion.com aims to bring order to a highly fragmented industry.
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Production Solutions goes on-line
Part of Production Solutions content is now available on a new portal, jointly owned by Emap Media, Channel Five and Netdecisions - produxion.com.
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Produxion.com to offer Barb ratings data free of charge
Produxion.com, the website for the TV production industry, has added Barb ratings access to its content.
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Tragedy prompts guidelines
News executives from the BBC, Associated Press Television News, Reuters and CNN are meeting this week to begin thrashing out guidelines for reporters working in the world's troublespots, writes Tara Conlan.Sky
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BBC news output goes widescreen
The BBC is to broadcast all news programming in wide-screen from Monday (2 October), coinciding with the relaunch of BBC Breakfast News.The move is part of the BBC's overall conversion to
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KIDS TV - Poised to net kids' market
With the BBC on the brink of launching two children's channels, Disney to launch three and 11 already broadcasting, television executives are beginning to doubt that there will be enough children to watch them all.
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Duo set up Smart Eric freelance recruitment website
A newspaper journalist and a management consultant have banded together to launch a website to help freelancers in different professions get work.The site, called SmartEric.com, allows freelancers to post CVs onto