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16·03·10 Week 11 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel THE BBC NEWSPAPER Fill up on espresso and put fuel in your tank a Pages 8-9 PH otogra PH: OLIVIA WOOD H ANOTHER CLASS ACT OUSE SCHOOL REPORT DAY ◆Ellie Crisell, reporter/ presenter BBC News, with pupils from the Bridge learning campus in South Bristol Page 4 ◆ Christian Aid will ◆ ‘If Wogan can, so ◆ No weak links complain to Trust can you’: campaigners allowed as quiz show about aid report Page 2 get people online Page 6 moves quayside Page 7 > NEWS 2-4 WEEK AT WORK 8-9 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 162 News aa 00·00·08 16·03·10 NEWS BITES a bbc stands by aid NEW DOCTOR Who Matt Smith, and assistant Karen Gillen, are going on tour, starting in Belfast on March 29 and visiting Inverness, Sunderland, Room 2316, White City documentary Salford and Northampton. Each place 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS will host a premiere of episode one, 020 8008 4228 The Eleventh Hour, in partnership with Editor BBC Outreach. Events will be held Candida Watson 02-84222 at BBC Big Screens in Edinburgh, Deputy editor Manchester, Swansea, London and Plymouth from April 1 to April 3. Cathy Loughran 02-27360 Chief writer JOSH DUBOVIE, 19, from Basildon, Sally Hillier 02-26877 Essex, will sing the UK entry, written Features editor by Pete Waterman and Mike Stock, Clare Bolt 02-27445 on the Eurovision Song Contest Broadcast Journalists in Oslo in May. He won the public Claire Barrett 02-27368 vote in Your Country Needs You!, Adam Bambury 02-27410 broadcast BBC One on Friday. Lisette Johnston 02-27630 Rumeana Jahangir 01-43756 A CD made from a BBC Jersey AV Manager radio programme, outlining the choices available to men Peter Roach 02-24622 diagnosed with prostate cancer, Art editor has generated thousands of orders. Ken Sinyard 02-84229 The cd, Everyman’s Journey, has Digital Design Executive been made widely available at GP David Murray 02-27380 surgeries and pharmacies on the Bob Geldof visits an emergency centre in Lalibela Ethiopia in 1985 island, and copies are also being Guest contributors this week distributed on the mainland. by Candida Watson ey Peberdy gave him for it went to the TPLF hi- erarchy. PROXimiTY LOndON has been RORY CELLAN JONES, the ‘accidental The controversy caused by the BBC World Serv- Andrew Hogg, head of media at Christian appointed – subject to contract miracle’ of the web Page 6 ice Assignment report on aid to Ethiopia in the Aid, told Ariel: ‘The impression the programme – to handle TV Licensing’s direct 1980s shows no signs of abating, with the char- gave was that Max Peberdy had the wool pulled marketing and printing services for ROB BROOMBY, verifying a Hero of ity Christian Aid preparing a formal complaint over his eyes by the TPLF. Yet in his book he gave the next five years. The contract will the Holocaust. Page 5 to the Trust about the programme. The chari- a lengthy explanation of the trouble he took to apply to the main direct marketing Ann GAnnON, on Hot Shoeing it to ty’s directors took the decision at a meeting on ensure the aid went where it should have.’ activity conducted by TV Licensing, The One Show. Page 14 Monday. Hogg also says that the programme gave ‘the including reminder letters. Bob Geldof, the man behind Band Aid and distinct impression’ that 95 percent of aid do- Live Aid has been vitriolic in his anger about nated in 1985 was siphoned off by the TPLF to ThE NEW bbc.co.uk homepage, the report. He has called for World Service New fund its war. launched internally last year, is now Ariel mail Africa Editor Martin Plaut, who made the doc- In a statement the BBC says: ‘The programme going public. Users can access it from [email protected] umentary, to be sacked, along with Andrew made clear that the assertion that 95 percent of the current homepage at bbc.co.uk Whitehead, WS head of news and current af- the aid routed through the TPLF relief society by clicking the beta link at the top of Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel fairs, and WS director Peter Horrocks. Geldof was diverted for other purposes was made by the page, above the navigation bar. BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 accused the World Service of ‘intense systemic a once high-ranking TPLF figure, now in exile. The new navigation bar will Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 failure’, and says the documentary has been ut- It is entirely correct to report these comments, soon be rolled out across all BBC BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 terly discredited by experts in the field. which are his own and not those of the BBC. online services. More at www. Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS The documentary, and the news reports They relate only to aid for areas then held by bbc.co.uk/home/feedback Advertise in Ariel which followed it, infuriated and alarmed not TPLF rebels, and not to the total famine relief Ten Alps Media 020 7878 2313 just Geldof but a number of charities. They say effort for Africa.’ An EGM (extraordinary general www.bbcarielads.com it gave too much credit to the claims of two It also points out that the documentary cit- meeting) of the BBC London Club former members of the Tigrean People’s Libera- ed supporting evidence from a CIA report and a will be held on March 31 at 12.30pm Printing tion Front that they had diverted money meant former US charge d’affaires to Addis Ababa. in the Club, 4th floor, TVC. There will Garnett Dickinson Group for food aid to funding their fighters. Hogg says: ‘The onus isn’t on us to prove that be a chance to vote to register a new Rotherham 01709 768000 One charity which is particularly angry is nothing was stolen, the onus is on the BBC to company as BBC Club Sports and Subscribe to Ariel Christian Aid. It feels the documentary ma- prove that 95 percent of the aid, as was alleged in Leisure Ltd. Email any questions or Six months: £26, £36, £40 ligned one of its former workers, Max Peber- that programme, actually went to buy weapons.’ feedback to [email protected]. Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 dy, who wrote a book about his work in Afri- The BBC said: ‘This was a well researched pro- ca. In the programme he explained to Plaut gramme and the BBC stands by the journalism.’ The BBC Black and Asian Forum (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world how he bought aid from local merchants. One The BBC Trust has yet to receive a formal AGM with Mark Thompson, respectively) of Plaut’s interviewees said the ‘grain’ he sold complaint, but Ariel has been told that Chris- due to to be held on March Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, to Peberdy was mostly sand and that the mon- tian Aid will be making one. 18, has been postponed. Brookfields Way, Manvers, Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL Tel 01709 768199 INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY Saba dedicated the award to the ‘hun- the expectations of the opposition, Telephone 0800 0688 159 dreds of young citizen journalists who nonetheless our coverage remained A night of smiles sent in UGC material in breach of [the impartial and objective.’ Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 government]’. It was, he said, ‘a great Persian TV also scooped team of Ariel is produced by Internal honour for a young channel. Despite the year, pipping BBC Janala – a World Communications for people at the BBC for Persian TV animosity from the government and Service Trust project to teach people in Bangladesh to speak English via by Clare Bolt ‘how multimedia interaction could their mobiles. BBC Janala later saw off nearly bring down a political regime’, Persian TV’s graphics team, to win the u BBC PERSIAN stole the show at last while Persian radio and online won global news craft award. week’s Global Reith awards, having best service (newsgathering) for Zia Zahak, office manager of the experienced a ‘baptism of fire’ when reporting ‘quickly and accurately the Kabul bureau, was named individual PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR COPY OF ARIEL the 2009 Iranian elections were called fast-moving events in Tehran’. Persian of the year, while Shihan Zuberi, who within six months of its launch in Jan- tv took the prize for the best service George Alagiah with works for the World Service Trust in uary 2009. (output) for covering the biggest glo- Shihar Zuberi, who Bangladesh, won the Kari Blackburn Interactive tv show Nowbat e Sho- bal breaking news event ‘in the face of won the Kari new talent award. News planning edi- ma , which won the best global news fierce intimidation from authorities’. Blackburn new tor Anna Williams won the outstand- output prize (multimedia), showed Head of the Persian service Sadeq talent award ing contribution award. > ARIEL ONLINE: BBC NEWS AS IT HAPPENS – EXPLORE.GATEWAY.BBC.CO.UK/ARIEL< a 16·03·10 News 3 Comedy Flat-pack installation costs comparable to basing coverage in Jo’burg and live music Cape Town’s rooftop studio focus on R2 by Sally Hillier ‘ticks all the World Cup boxes’ Specially-commissioned shows with by Cathy Loughran issues of ‘commercial sensitivity’: ‘We have done Richard Wilson and Ricky Tomlin- an extensive budgeting exercise which shows son, a series from Irish stand-up Ja- The BBC’s controversial rooftop studio in Cape the costs for our facilities in Cape Town are com- son Byrne, and a panel game called Town, with its views of Table Mountain, won out parable with those at the International Broad- Never Write Off The Germans (part of the over every other World Cup location because no- cast Centre,’ she said.