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    Tragedy prompts guidelines

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    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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    Off the record - Giving offence

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    OK, so we know that laughing at people's command of a second language ranks somewhere near taking the piss out of the Millennium Dome and Eldorado in terms of sophisticated humour,

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    Opinion - Game on in the great news race

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    What strange systems we created for ourselves. One extreme example was everywhere apparent in Brighton this week where the supposed zenith of democratic politics - the incumbent government's party conference -

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    Flashback gets in Hot Seat

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Indie Flashback Television has secured a number of commissions including a new 6 x 60-minute series for Artsworld, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    High-definition facility Home opens in London

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    London's first high-definition facility, Home, opens this weekend, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    Ex-soldiers rapped for war reports

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    New production outfit Contact Zone TV (CZTV) has come under fire this week from news agencies for using former SAS soldiers to provide footage of conflicts, writes Tara Conlan.

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    Global ties to stop UK exports slump

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Domestic producers and broadcasters have pledged to work alongside international distributors in a bid to overturn the slide in TV programme sales - particularly in the problem genres of comedy and

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    VVSL offers freebies to encourage producer take-up

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Virtual Video Studios in London (VVSL) is offering free virtual sets in a bid to encourage programme makers to opt for virtual studio production.VVSL managing director Les Young said: 'We have

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    Off the record - Herculean efforts

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Remember Itel's mini babybel Andrew Macbean, who recently declared plans to flounce out of the glamorous world of international TV sales to go on the dole topped up with pocket money

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    Former Mill Film duo to launch Lola

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Award-winning 2D compositor Rob Harvey and 3D specialist Graham Andrew are on the verge of launching a new commercials facility in London called Lola, writes Joanna Scott.

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    Telewest and On Digital face legal proceedings

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    High court action has been launched against Telewest and On Digital for alleged unlicensed use of patented pay-television software. US company TV/Com International has launched proceedings against the two cable firms

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    Trade Talk - Dann's inferno

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Now courted by Emap, ex-BBC head of music Trevor Dann has never been shy of controversy. Simon Ellery reports on his exit from the corporation.

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    Rapture cuts staffing

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Rapture TV's 40-strong production team in Norwich is facing cuts. The announcement was made at a meeting on Wednesday (27 September) in a now defunct Rapture studio within the Anglia TV

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    Online service targets creative professionals

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    A new creative services database, Artism, is launching this week, backed by top British media companies and figures, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Artism is an online and off-line service for professionals in TV,

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    Just group creates managing director role

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Just Group has hired former Scottish Television Enterprises managing director Darrel James for the new role of managing director of its Just Entertainment division. His brief is to focus on TV

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    Cramer: TV news needs edgier style

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    TV news organisations should return to old-style 'edgy' reporting with stronger eyewitness coverage or face dwindling audiences, CNN International president Chris Cramer has warned.Speaking to the Royal Television Society (RTS) last

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    UK competition looks good for Fox Kids Europe sales

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has said that increased competition in the UK could generate greater content sales for the company. FKE chairman and chief executive officer Ynon Kriez told Broadcast that

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    Collaboration is nigh

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has created a new structure which is meant to act as a 'talent ladder' for factual, upping the chances of getting risky documentaries on at peaktime. But will it happen?

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    CNN focuses on European news with CNN.com launch

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    CNN has launched CNN.com Europe to focus on European news as part of its localisation drive. Launched last week, the site is produced from a new European interactive studio and run

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    Off the record - Civvy Street

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    We have been asked to point out that following the commissioning editors' rejig at Channel 4, there is no truth in rumours that documentaries general Peter Dale will be making his