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Steve Williams Senior Editor BBC World

Steve Williams Senior Editor BBC World What kind of person is a TV news journalist? No great ideology Outgoing (talks a lot) Ambitious Curious Impatient Pragmatic What kind of channel is BBC World? Reach Upmarket decision makers 253 million households

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Steve Williams Senior Editor BBC World

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  1. Steve Williams Senior Editor BBC World

  2. What kind of person is a TV news journalist? • No great ideology • Outgoing (talks a lot) • Ambitious • Curious • Impatient • Pragmatic

  3. What kind of channel is BBC World? Reach • Upmarket decision makers • 253 million households • More than 200 countries and territories worldwide • Plus more than one million hotel rooms, 23 airlines and 25 cruise ships • Places of influence: • European Commission Headquarters in Brussels • All MEP offices in the European Parliament, Brussels and Strasbourg • Houses of Parliament in London • All televisions at United Nations HQ

  4. What kind of channel is BBC World? Content • 24-hour global news and information channel • More than 17 hours of news and current affairs programmes every day • Commercial – advertisers include Microsoft, Nokia, Peugeot, Czech Tourist Authority

  5. What kind of channel is BBC World? News • BBC News – worlds largest newsgathering operation • 58 international news bureaux • Global network of 250 correspondents

  6. Two hours in the life of a BBC World newsroom Thursday 11 March 2004

  7. 07.39 First bomb explodes in Madrid 08.07 First report into BBC newsroom 08.08 Steve begins rolling news with live reporter from Madrid 08.20 First pictures from Madrid on air 09.30 In regular contact with Spanish emergency services, government BBC team being pulled together and sent to Madrid 09.40 BBC World interviews three security experts from around Europe – verdict: “It’s not ETA.”

  8. BBC World runs Madrid story for 13 hours on 11 March and regular reports live from the news team in Madrid until Spanish polls close on Sunday night

  9. What drives international TV news? “The Screen of Death”

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