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October Films expands drama and features
RTE producer Martin Holland appointed as head of drama, alongside former Neighbours at War producer Tina Cawte as head of features
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MPs slam Jowell and Hewitt
Media and trade secretaries under fire after recommendations by media select committee on the future of broadcast legislation were swept aside
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Rolling news services under the microscope
BBC news deputy director Mark Damazer says pressure to deliver news first is lowering the standard of news broadcasts
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Rolling news services under the microscope
BBC news deputy director Mark Damazer says pressure to deliver news first is lowering the standard of news broadcasts
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DIY nuclear bomb
Einstein.tv to screen one-off documentary examining how easy it would be for rogue state to manufacture a nuclear bomb
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Beasts sheds 1.7m viewers
Latest BBC animated prehistoric documentary takes dramatic fall in second week as main channels lose viewers to football double-header
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TIVO ADDS 50,000 SUBS
Personal video recorder manufacturer Tivo has clocked up 51,000 new subscribers in the US for the three months to 31 October, taking the total subscriber base to around 280,000. Revenue for
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - SHAH WINS AMIN AWARD
Freelance reporter Saira Shah scooped the Mohamed Amin award for her Channel 4 Dispatches programme, Beneath the Veil, which uncovered the plight of Afghan women under the Taleban regime. The award
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - STRESS DISORDER STUDY
CNN is giving financial backing to a new research project on post-traumatic stress disorder among journalists. Journalists in Disaster Zones: A Psychological Study is being carried out following the attacks in
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - SHORT SLAMS MEDIA
Secretary of state for international development Claire Short hit out at media organisations for their 'obsessive' tendencies to compete with each other, which has led to neglect of international news. Short
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - Collaboration key to winning news funds
News Organisations must be prepared to collaborate if they are to overcome increasing cost pressures facing TV news corporations in the current economic climate, according to CNN International networks president Chris
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - PRAISE FOR AL-JAZEERA
Western news organisations have praised Qatar-based news network Al-Jazeera for its 'refreshing' involvement in the coverage of the war on Afghanistan. The station, which has provided a continual stream of exclusive
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - Pressure for exclusives threatens news quality
Pressure on 24-hour news broadcasters to deliver exclusives is threatening the quality of broadcasts, according to BBC news deputy director Mark Damazer, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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New president for Static 2358
Open TV has recruited another former senior executive of the defunct British Interactive Broadcasting (BIB), appointing Joan Gillman as president of its interactive TV subsidiary Static 2358, writes Simon Ellery.
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Top C4 execs on panel to hire new chief
The Channel 4 board has taken the unusual step of placing two its most senior channel executives on the interview panel that is choosing a successor to former C4 chief executive Michael Jackson, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Anson goes in 4 Ventures cut
Channel 4 head of business planning and interactive Andy Anson has become the first casualty of the planned 15 redundancies at the broadcaster's commercial arm 4 Ventures.His departure will herald a
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C4 to look at European migration
October Films has landed a major commission for Channel 4 to be directed by award-winning documentary-maker Angus Maqueen, writes Simon Ellery.
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STRESS MANIACS ON C4
Channel 4 editor, arts and animation Camilla Deakin has commissioned indie Pesky to make a one-off animated gameshow for C4's Hot Reels: Animation Grand Prix strand, writes Jon Rogers. Fifteen-minute Stress
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MD Pannaman quits 4MC
4MC CO-MANAGING director Nick Pannaman has quit the industry, claiming it is 'time for a change', writes Barbara Marshall.
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C4 TO AIR THE WORST OF CORPORATE VIDEOS
Code Design produced the opening titles and stings for Channel 4 Comedy Lab pastiche 'Jimmy Carr's World of Corporate Videos', a light-hearted tribute to corporate videos from the past 30 years.