23/06/2012 Newswatch

Welcome to use water. Later in the programme: the leader of the Labour

Party. BBC journalists fear the name of the Labour leader, were

they are and the importance of staying on the ball at all times.

First, a complaint from use watch readers. The appearance of news

reaches far from their regular location. Last Friday saw Fiona

Bruce in Athens. The world is watching as Greece prepares to

vote... Other BBC correspondents were also on the spot covering

Greece's election which led some viewers to question the reason of

their presence. He raised what BBC News had to say. Fiona Bruce was

presenting a booking at great public opinion ahead of the crucial

vote. The elections have a much importance. Presenting from grace

underlined the significance and helped me was connect with the

story. I enjoyed by Bill Worrall and Brenda Key. Did a fear no's

presence will be catered for the story? -- Fiona. No. I thought that

she was eye candy for the majority of the viewing public. The

reporters you had already based there had a greater depth of

knowledge of the situation. It was very important. What did you make

of it? I agree. I think she distracted me from concentrating on

the programme. Why was she there? You were spending time worrying

about that rather than what she was saying? Yes. We have had people

there for quite some time. They have been reporting. We have

understood everything. All of a sudden Fiona Bruce shows up. Was

she on holidays? I do not think it was necessary. As a licence payer

what do you think of the cost? It is not a huge cost but an extra

cost. I would like to see the BBC give us an indication of the actual

cost. I am not sure how she trouble there. I expect it was not steerage

class. She probably had a night in a hotel. It would not have been a

budget hotel. I cannot see the cost of that adding one iota to the

presentation of the programme. I have seen this so many times in the

past. I thought it had been avoided and the BBC had announced they

would not continue to do this. It seemed to be very prevalent.

did do a story which I saw myself with the family of a taxi driver. A

human story about how difficult life is for Greek citizens. Maybe

she added a bit more than standing there for the news. I don't think.

You trail a programme that says when a story is breaking that you

have people on the ground. Why do you have to ship people in? These

people around the ground. They have more knowledge. I do not agree. I

think it is an absolute waste of money. Bill, your final brief

message to the editors who do this? I believe that they should take

deep consideration of these sorts of abuse and avoid sending these

are highly -- highly paid his readers that could be better spent

reading the news at home. Thank you. There have been plenty of health

stories this week including one on Arrow website. On the main health

page we carried the headline, council raised -- cancer risk for

tea drinkers. Men who are heavy tea drinkers may be more likely to

develop prostate cancer. In smaller print the team said it did not know

if tea was a risk factor. This was overdue sensationalism. Writers

need to learn the difference between correlation and causation.

The news reporter despite the news report that more than seven cups of

tea could develop prostate cancer. Four out of 100 men develop

prostate cancer. More than seven cups of tea increases this to six

out of 100 men. That is not an increased risk. It is a 2% increase

of risk which is not statistically significant. The BBC needs to

question stories rather than grabbing unfounded headlines.

Another story brought a favourable reaction. Her what is the critical

problem in the way the NHS handles people? Caroline Anthony got in

touch with us to say it is brilliant that the issue of mental

health was discussed. I think mental health needs to be discussed

more openly. The BBC launched its very own college of journalism to

train its own staff and journalists and media students elsewhere. On

Tuesday it relaunched its website in response. -- in response to

significant advances. With me is the editor of the College of

journalism website. Matthew, why are you relaunching it and what

they try to achieve? The existing website had been sitting on some

old technology. The design, feel and look of the website was quite

old fashioned. The content and authority of that material was

terrific but we needed to move it on to a platform that was stable

and robust and bring it into BBC Design feel. Can you train

journalists online? Is very danger that they will go through a

mechanical way? The website is not about models. It is about informal

learning. We know that a lot of journalists learned by talking with

other journalists. Hadaway do this Shi'ite Hadaway use my camera.

We're trying to replicate that feel. We're trying to say, here are some

useful tips. They can look at it in their downtime and look at how the

best in the BBC do their job. Should the BBC licence fee be

paying for the training of media students? The BBC has an obligation

to train the industry. This is exactly what we're doing with the

College of journalism website. We have sister websites and the rest

of the training arm. How much does Wallabies cost? I suspect malty

millions. The Academy has a training budget of $27 million.

That covers every bit of training that the BBC does from health and

safety to broadcast. It is a huge responsibility. It seems like an

awful lot of money. Is it good value? We are incredible value for

what we do. The BBC has an important role. We recognise the

role that we have been maintaining quality across the industry. The

website club side of the UK is behind a subscription wall. In

America, Australia and Japan they paid to access the material.

Members of the audience in the UK he would like to see the issues and

values can look-in and C? Yes. That is what is fantastic for journalism

students across the country. They can see how the best BBC

journalists do their job. The wry insights from our leading producers.

They are offering their skills and expertise on the Web site for

everybody to access. The! -- Thank you.. Despite all the training BBC

journalists sometimes get it wrong. The Labour leader was named on air

as David Miller band rather than Ed Miliband. This week it happened

again. The leader of the Labour Party has made an this track a

personal attack on David Cameron. Brian Duffy in Melbourne on Sunday,

he is not the leader of the Labour Party. You may like to tell the

newscaster. Consider it done. Perhaps the presenters on Breakfast

also need a reminder. They are not quite sure why they are.

recorded his album at the famous Abbey Road studios here in London,

I am not in London. Finally, one golden rule of broadcasting is to

look like you're interested. Ben Brown seems to be struggling.

investigation describes the situation as a scandal. If one of

your wondered what was Ben Brown having a yawn for on the BBC News

channel? I hope you're not overworking him. It looks very odd