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How Did We Do at Being Green Because I'm Not Worth It Crisis 09·06·09 Week 23 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel THE BBC NEWSPAPER SIX DIRECTORS LINED UP TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS a Page 4 photograph SpoKespeopLE: National bike : ◆week is coming up and journalists mark Sean Riley and Kylie Pentelow are bassett already on the case Page 7 Reinventing the wheels How did we do Crisis demands Because I’m at being green fast reactions not worth it THREE THOUSAND printers have A NEW BREED of ‘information doers’, FOR HONESTY about abuse of ◆gone missing, except nobody’s ◆shooting pictures with mobile phones, ◆public money, George Orwell would missed them. Making more people share are transforming the news space – but do put Westminster to shame. His self- a printer is one energy-saving winner in a conventional sources of authority know deprecating letter of resignation from the year that’s seen big waste reduction but how to cope with this unconventional BBC is just one intriguing item unearthed modest progress on overall power and reporting. Nik Gowing revisited the G20 by the archives editorial team for their water consumption. Page 3 protests and 7/7 to find out more.Page 10 latest online collection. Page 5 > NEED TO KNOW 2 WEEK AT WORK 8-9 OPINION 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 216 News aa 00·00·0809·06·09 NEED TO KNOW THE WEEK’S esseNTIALS NEWS BITES JANA BENNETT has launched a an online directory of disabled Timely takeover by Bradshaw actors, performers and musicians, a nationwide search for new Room 2425, White City u BEN BRADSHAW a former BBC journalist, has disabled talent and announced that replaced Andy Burnham as culture secretary disabled actor David Proud will 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS in Gordon Brown’s cabinet reshuffle. Burnham, join the regular cast of EastEnders. who held the job for 14 months, is now health 020 8008 4228 secretary. Radio 1’S Big Weekend in Swindon Bradshaw takes up his post just days before was the most interactive to date, Editor the expected publication of the final version of with 5.3m video requests received Andrew Harvey 02-84222 Digital Britain, a report by broadcasting minister via the dedicated website, compared Deputy editors Stephen Carter about which there is specula- to one million last year. 1.1m people Sally Hillier 02-26877 tion that it might recommend giving licence fee tuned to the red button coverage. Cathy Loughran 02-27360 money directly to help ITV regional news. Features editor If this proves to be an early hot potato for Owenna GriFFitHS is the new Clare Bolt 02-27445 Bradshaw, he is used to feeling the heat. His web editor of CBBC’s Newsround. She is Reporters profile records: ‘My lucky career move was to currently an assistant editor on Carla Parks 02-27630 get the job as the BBC’s Berlin correspondent at Today, in which role she accompanied Laura Scarrott 02-84224 the beginning of 1989,’ just weeks before the John Humphrys to Basra and Peggy Walker 01-43940 fall of the Wall. edited the US election coverage. Production editor After just one Parliament on the back Claire Barrett 02-27368 benches Bradshaw was made a minister in the GraHAM Norton’S BBC Two Art editor Foreign Office in 2001, becoming deputy leader chat show is transferring to a Ken Sinyard 02-84229 of the Commons and environment minister new 10.35pm slot on BBC One Ariel online before joining the health team in 2007. Earlier this autumn as part of plans to Andy Walker (editor) 02-84227 this year, he was a vocal critic of the BBC’s BBC as market maker in an area where commer- raise the presenter’s profile. Alex Goodey 02-27410 refusal to air the Gaza emergency appeal. cial operators have made, and will continue to Business co-ordinator Bradshaw became the first MP to enter into a make, significant investments, such that the po- CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist Silvana Romana 02-84228 civil partnership when he married BBC journalist tential for distortion of competition is manifest’. is to join the in-house comedy Ariel mail Neal Dalgleish in 2006. BBC management’s additional information, department on attachment for a year [email protected] and a revised timetable to complete the trust’s as creative and business director. She Ariel online ariel.gateway.bbc.co.uk u THE BBC TRUst’S reQUest for more infor- assessment, will be published in due course. will work across the UK, including mation about Project Canvas has put a tempo- with Comedy North in Manchester. Guest contributors this week rary spoke in the wheel of one of the BBC’s most u Here’S A new naME to conjUre witH: Amy ambitious and, to many people, most attractive Coyte, most recently chief executive of the Bat BBC Worldwide has struck a BEN BROWN on surviving frontline partnership ideas. Conservation Trust, has been appointed director deal to launch BBC Knowledge, war reporting. Page 8 Canvas, announced by Mark Thompson at the of the BBC Wildlife Fund. It’s a post newly cre- BBC Lifestyle and CBeebies to NIK GOWING on the new media end of last year with a view to going live in 2010, ated by the grant-making charity, set up in 2007 500,000 subscribers on StarHub TV, power to the people. Page 10 is a joint initiative between the BBC, BT and ITV on the back of the BBC’s Saving Planet Earth. Singapore’s largest pay tv platform. MARK DUFF on a job share in that will bring catch-up from the pc to the tv set. This special season of programmes from the marvellous, maddening Milan. Page 14 Using a new type of set-top box, connected to natural history unit highlighted how the global BBC Two’S Beautiful People has taken a broadband line, people will be able to access landscape was changing and how conservation the comedy award at the Banff tv all the free tv channels as well as the BBC iPlayer projects could help to provide a more secure festival. BBC Three’s Blood Sweat BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 and ITV player, plus other interactive content. future for animals and plants. Saving Planet and T-Shirts was named best reality Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 After a seven-week initial consultation, dur- Earth included a series of films by celebrities format and Titus: The Gorilla King, BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 ing which it received more than 800 submis- like Fiona Bruce, Edith Bowman and Phil Tufnell, by Tigress Productions for the BBC Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS sions, the trust has decided to delay a decision who appealed for money to save a number of and WNET, won the wildlife award. about the project, scheduled for July 24. When endangered species – crocodiles in Cambodia, Advertise in Ariel it has the additional information, the trust will tigers in India and orang-utans in Borneo. BBC MancHester hopes to have Ten Alps Publishing 020 7878 2314 launch a second period of consultation. Since then almost £2m has been raised, one of its two chillers back in action www.bbcarielads.com The problem is that many of those consulted, enabling the BBC Wildlife Fund to support 50 by Friday and the second shortly who include Google, indie tv companies and international and UK projects. The BBC itself has afterwards. Both are 35 years old and Printing consumer groups, have expressed concern over not donated any finance. As a publicly funded have been out of action, resulting in Garnett Dickinson Group ‘a lack of detail’ in key areas. There is also con- broadcaster that would be against the rules. stifling conditions in Oxford Road. Rotherham 01709 768000 cern over possible market impact. ‘Canvas will During a recent visit to Kenya, Ernestina Craig stifle competition and the development of VOD Hall from BBC Outreach saw the work of the Tusk Listen Here! the BBC Scottish Subscribe to Ariel [video on demand],’ Virgin Media claims, while Trust, which has received a grant of £19,371 from Symphony Orchestra’s second Six months: £26, £36, £40 Sky says the project appears ‘to position the the fund. See her report on Page 14. ‘big weekend’ of free concerts Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 and music-making events from (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world its home in Glasgow City Halls, respectively) ARIEL ONLINE EDITOR’S UPDATE will be held between June 18-21. Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, Brookfields Way, Manvers, barrY Manilow will make his Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL A few dramas but the launch went well only UK appearance this year at BBC Tel 01709 768199 Proms in the Park, broadcast live on HiGHS and lows in laUncH week, but now we’re rated, ears wigged etc), so please make an effort Radio 2 from London’s Hyde Park. He INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY back to business as usual. to join the conversation, as many of you have done joins a line-up that includes mezzo- Telephone 0800 0688 159 Last week Ariel online’s redesign finally launched. already. soprano Katherine Jenkins, also Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 It was a challenging few days of technical problems, We value feedback, so we’ll be putting letters making her Proms in the Park debut. Ariel is produced by Internal but as those were eventually resolved, we are now back into a prominent position and running regular Communcations for people at the BBC left with a website which complements the colour ‘just for fun’ caption competitions – both sugges- and depth of coverage in the paper – and with around tions from staff.
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