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Where does your local BBC get its news?

Paul Murphy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:25:00 +0000

Ed: On the About the BBC blog Tim Bishop, Head of Regional and Local Programmes at BBC East, has written about the relationship between BBC local radio and regional newspapers.

For many in the newspaper industry, and in particular the local press, the suspicion is that the BBC's Deep Throat is picking up a copy of the local paper.

It's a suggestion repeated fairly frequently and usually without much challenge. So what's the actual evidence?

Six months ago, the BBC and the Newspaper Society, the body that represents regional publishers, decided to work together to find out. The agreed method was simple. Monitor news in one area for a month then look at the stories that overlapped and trace them back to their source. Northamptonshire was chosen. It has two strong evening papers and a weekly run by Johnston Press. The BBC is not unusually well-resourced there.

Read the rest of Where does your local BBC get its news? on the About the BBC blog

A day in the life of 5 live

Steve Bowbrick — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:26:51 +0000

For the next couple of weeks, over on the 5 live blog, they're going to be taking listeners behind the scenes at the 24-hour station - with blog posts from people in every area of 5 live. Each blogger will write about a day in their life at the station, starting tomorrow morning with Chris Hunter, assistant editor on Breakfast. Imogen Crump, a producer at 5 live Interactive, has kicked the whole thing off with this fascinating time-lapse video of 24 hours in the newsroom. Read the rest of her blog post and leave a comment on the 5 live blog...

Steve Bowbrick, blogs editor