23/06/2012

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:00:26. > :00:33.Welcome to use water. Later in the programme: the leader of the Labour

:00:33. > :00:37.Party. BBC journalists fear the name of the Labour leader, were

:00:37. > :00:41.they are and the importance of staying on the ball at all times.

:00:41. > :00:46.First, a complaint from use watch readers. The appearance of news

:00:46. > :00:52.reaches far from their regular location. Last Friday saw Fiona

:00:52. > :00:57.Bruce in Athens. The world is watching as Greece prepares to

:00:57. > :01:04.vote... Other BBC correspondents were also on the spot covering

:01:04. > :01:09.Greece's election which led some viewers to question the reason of

:01:10. > :01:12.their presence. He raised what BBC News had to say. Fiona Bruce was

:01:12. > :01:21.presenting a booking at great public opinion ahead of the crucial

:01:21. > :01:24.vote. The elections have a much importance. Presenting from grace

:01:24. > :01:33.underlined the significance and helped me was connect with the

:01:33. > :01:42.story. I enjoyed by Bill Worrall and Brenda Key. Did a fear no's

:01:42. > :01:48.presence will be catered for the story? -- Fiona. No. I thought that

:01:48. > :01:52.she was eye candy for the majority of the viewing public. The

:01:52. > :01:57.reporters you had already based there had a greater depth of

:01:57. > :02:05.knowledge of the situation. It was very important. What did you make

:02:05. > :02:11.of it? I agree. I think she distracted me from concentrating on

:02:11. > :02:18.the programme. Why was she there? You were spending time worrying

:02:18. > :02:22.about that rather than what she was saying? Yes. We have had people

:02:22. > :02:28.there for quite some time. They have been reporting. We have

:02:28. > :02:37.understood everything. All of a sudden Fiona Bruce shows up. Was

:02:37. > :02:42.she on holidays? I do not think it was necessary. As a licence payer

:02:42. > :02:51.what do you think of the cost? It is not a huge cost but an extra

:02:51. > :02:57.cost. I would like to see the BBC give us an indication of the actual

:02:57. > :03:03.cost. I am not sure how she trouble there. I expect it was not steerage

:03:03. > :03:13.class. She probably had a night in a hotel. It would not have been a

:03:13. > :03:19.budget hotel. I cannot see the cost of that adding one iota to the

:03:19. > :03:24.presentation of the programme. I have seen this so many times in the

:03:24. > :03:30.past. I thought it had been avoided and the BBC had announced they

:03:30. > :03:37.would not continue to do this. It seemed to be very prevalent.

:03:37. > :03:43.did do a story which I saw myself with the family of a taxi driver. A

:03:43. > :03:53.human story about how difficult life is for Greek citizens. Maybe

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:03:53. > :03:59.she added a bit more than standing there for the news. I don't think.

:03:59. > :04:06.You trail a programme that says when a story is breaking that you

:04:06. > :04:11.have people on the ground. Why do you have to ship people in? These

:04:11. > :04:17.people around the ground. They have more knowledge. I do not agree. I

:04:17. > :04:24.think it is an absolute waste of money. Bill, your final brief

:04:24. > :04:34.message to the editors who do this? I believe that they should take

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:04:34. > :04:42.deep consideration of these sorts of abuse and avoid sending these

:04:42. > :04:47.are highly -- highly paid his readers that could be better spent

:04:47. > :04:53.reading the news at home. Thank you. There have been plenty of health

:04:53. > :04:58.stories this week including one on Arrow website. On the main health

:04:58. > :05:03.page we carried the headline, council raised -- cancer risk for

:05:03. > :05:09.tea drinkers. Men who are heavy tea drinkers may be more likely to

:05:09. > :05:15.develop prostate cancer. In smaller print the team said it did not know

:05:15. > :05:19.if tea was a risk factor. This was overdue sensationalism. Writers

:05:19. > :05:25.need to learn the difference between correlation and causation.

:05:25. > :05:29.The news reporter despite the news report that more than seven cups of

:05:29. > :05:34.tea could develop prostate cancer. Four out of 100 men develop

:05:35. > :05:40.prostate cancer. More than seven cups of tea increases this to six

:05:40. > :05:46.out of 100 men. That is not an increased risk. It is a 2% increase

:05:47. > :05:51.of risk which is not statistically significant. The BBC needs to

:05:51. > :05:57.question stories rather than grabbing unfounded headlines.

:05:57. > :06:03.Another story brought a favourable reaction. Her what is the critical

:06:03. > :06:06.problem in the way the NHS handles people? Caroline Anthony got in

:06:06. > :06:12.touch with us to say it is brilliant that the issue of mental

:06:12. > :06:18.health was discussed. I think mental health needs to be discussed

:06:18. > :06:23.more openly. The BBC launched its very own college of journalism to

:06:23. > :06:29.train its own staff and journalists and media students elsewhere. On

:06:29. > :06:35.Tuesday it relaunched its website in response. -- in response to

:06:35. > :06:41.significant advances. With me is the editor of the College of

:06:41. > :06:46.journalism website. Matthew, why are you relaunching it and what

:06:46. > :06:51.they try to achieve? The existing website had been sitting on some

:06:51. > :06:57.old technology. The design, feel and look of the website was quite

:06:57. > :07:01.old fashioned. The content and authority of that material was

:07:01. > :07:09.terrific but we needed to move it on to a platform that was stable

:07:09. > :07:14.and robust and bring it into BBC Design feel. Can you train

:07:14. > :07:19.journalists online? Is very danger that they will go through a

:07:19. > :07:25.mechanical way? The website is not about models. It is about informal

:07:25. > :07:35.learning. We know that a lot of journalists learned by talking with

:07:35. > :07:35.

:07:35. > :07:41.other journalists. Hadaway do this Shi'ite Hadaway use my camera.

:07:42. > :07:48.We're trying to replicate that feel. We're trying to say, here are some

:07:48. > :07:54.useful tips. They can look at it in their downtime and look at how the

:07:54. > :08:04.best in the BBC do their job. Should the BBC licence fee be

:08:04. > :08:07.

:08:07. > :08:12.paying for the training of media students? The BBC has an obligation

:08:12. > :08:17.to train the industry. This is exactly what we're doing with the

:08:17. > :08:23.College of journalism website. We have sister websites and the rest

:08:23. > :08:29.of the training arm. How much does Wallabies cost? I suspect malty

:08:29. > :08:35.millions. The Academy has a training budget of $27 million.

:08:35. > :08:40.That covers every bit of training that the BBC does from health and

:08:40. > :08:46.safety to broadcast. It is a huge responsibility. It seems like an

:08:46. > :08:51.awful lot of money. Is it good value? We are incredible value for

:08:51. > :08:58.what we do. The BBC has an important role. We recognise the

:08:59. > :09:03.role that we have been maintaining quality across the industry. The

:09:03. > :09:08.website club side of the UK is behind a subscription wall. In

:09:08. > :09:15.America, Australia and Japan they paid to access the material.

:09:15. > :09:21.Members of the audience in the UK he would like to see the issues and

:09:21. > :09:25.values can look-in and C? Yes. That is what is fantastic for journalism

:09:25. > :09:30.students across the country. They can see how the best BBC

:09:30. > :09:34.journalists do their job. The wry insights from our leading producers.

:09:34. > :09:43.They are offering their skills and expertise on the Web site for

:09:43. > :09:50.everybody to access. The! -- Thank you.. Despite all the training BBC

:09:50. > :09:54.journalists sometimes get it wrong. The Labour leader was named on air

:09:54. > :10:00.as David Miller band rather than Ed Miliband. This week it happened

:10:01. > :10:09.again. The leader of the Labour Party has made an this track a

:10:09. > :10:13.personal attack on David Cameron. Brian Duffy in Melbourne on Sunday,

:10:14. > :10:19.he is not the leader of the Labour Party. You may like to tell the

:10:20. > :10:29.newscaster. Consider it done. Perhaps the presenters on Breakfast

:10:30. > :10:31.

:10:31. > :10:38.also need a reminder. They are not quite sure why they are.

:10:38. > :10:48.recorded his album at the famous Abbey Road studios here in London,

:10:48. > :10:51.

:10:51. > :10:58.I am not in London. Finally, one golden rule of broadcasting is to

:10:58. > :11:02.look like you're interested. Ben Brown seems to be struggling.

:11:02. > :11:06.investigation describes the situation as a scandal. If one of

:11:06. > :11:10.your wondered what was Ben Brown having a yawn for on the BBC News

:11:10. > :11:15.channel? I hope you're not overworking him. It looks very odd