photograph 27·04·10 Week 17 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel : ELLIOTT FRANKS a THE BBC NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY ASSISTANT Mauro ◆Silva adjusts violinist Nicola Benedetti’s mic, while publicity colleague Madeleine Castell helps presenter Katie Derham with her dress during a Royal Albert Hall photoshoot to launch the BBC Proms 2010. Page 4 POISED FOR THE PROMS ◆ Make it count in ◆ Creating chemistry ◆ Pat Younge talks the Midlands for final with ‘buddy’ scheme tough on trust and leaders’debate Page 3 for scientists Pages 8-9 press leaks Page 10 > NEWS 2-4 WEEK AT WORK 7 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 FOREIGN REPORT 15 GREEN ROOM 16 < 216 News aa 00·00·08 27·04·10 NEWS BITES a Working Lunch axed THE 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi will be broadcast live and exclusively on the BBC following Room 2316, White City an agreement with the organising 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS for future savings committee for the event, which takes place between October 020 8008 4228 3-14. Coverage will be available Editor by Cathy Loughran amount, and aim to meet with the unions af- on tv, radio, online, iPlayer, Candida Watson 02-84222 ter the election.’ But he admitted redundancies mobile and new media outlets. Deputy editor THE 14-STRONG team behind Working Lunch are a possibility. Cathy Loughran 02-27360 spent the weekend digesting the news that the The audience for the BBC Two lunchtime JO BRAND, Harry Enfield, Eddie Chief writer programme will come off air permanently this show started to fall after 2001, with 450,000 (8 Izzard and Catherine Tate are Sally Hillier 02-26877 summer, to be replaced by a UK-focused edition percent share) in 2002/3 dropping to an average among 50 performers and directors Planning manager of BBC World News show GMT with George Ala- of below 300,000 (4.3 percent share) this year. who have signed a public letter Clare Bolt 02-24622 giah. Some of the savings made by cancelling the raising concerns about the BBC’s Broadcast Journalists A year and a half after its relaunch, the programme will come back to the business unit future. The letter, published in the BBC Two daily business magazine, whose audi- to launch new weekend business programming Observer, criticises the ‘cavalier Claire Barrett 02-27368 ence has stabilised following a gradual decline, on Radio 5Live and the News Channel. A new attitude’ shown by opposition Adam Bambury 02-27410 has been axed. Head of newsgathering Fran Money Watch season starting in the summer is parties to BBC independence and Lisette Johnston 02-27630 Unsworth said it was ‘a very difficult decision’. also part of the revamp. urges people to ‘think about the Rumeana Jahangir 01 -43756 It was ‘an extremely hard [decision] for eve- Business Unit editor Jeremy Hillman said; consequences of their vote’ on May 6. AV Manager ryone on the team who has worked so creatively ‘This has been a hard decision to make, not Peter Roach 02-24622 and passionately on the programme’, she said. least because of the impact on a creative and A COLLABORATIVE series between Digital Design Executives ‘The decision is no reflection on them but re- dedicated team who have worked hard to target Newsnight, the Norwegian David Murray 02-27380 flects the continuing requirement to meet our a difficult to reach and under-served audience Broadcasting Corporation, the Gary Lonergan 02-84229 delivering creative future savings plan.’ for news. I am confident though that the chang- Guardian newspaper and Dutch Team assistant Unsworth hoped that the eight to nine peo- es we are making, including new weekend pro- paper de Volkskrant has won the Graeme Allister 02-84228 ple on the editorial team could be redeployed, gramming, will continue to deliver high quali- Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding avoiding any job losses when the programme ty money and business news with real impact.’ international investigative closes this July. Working Lunch producer Carolyn Rice told journalism. The series looked Guest contributors this week The equivalent of 5.7 craft posts in the news- Ariel: ‘The biggest shame is what the audience at toxic waste dumping in West room studio group, graphics and editing are will lose. There is Moneybox on radio, but no Africa, and the award was given LUCIE MCLEAN Hot Shoeing it also likely to be affected, said Nigel Charters, one else does what we do in business on tv for a in memory of Wall Street Journal to external communications in managing editor, television news. very loyal audience that includes lots of retired reporter Daniel Pearl who was killed Manchester. Page 14 ‘We will look at shifts, overtime and rota people who don’t consume business output on- by Pakistani militants in 2002. patterns first to see how we can reduce by that line or anywhere else.’ LORNA GORDON on Iceland’s BBC ARCHIVE has released a phlegmatic response to the volcano new collection telling the story on the doorstep. Page 15 of the Swingometer. 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INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY Golf coverage ‘did not mislead’ Telephone 0800 0688 159 SPORTS NEWS correspondent did visit the National in a per- Telegraph itself has caused Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 James Pearce has dismissed as sonal capacity. confusion by ‘packaging up’ Ariel is produced by Internal ‘nonsense’ a press story sug- ‘Once it was confirmed that Pearce’s tv reporting with his A THANKSGIVING service for Communications for people at the BBC gesting he misled people with Tiger Woods was playing, none blog and Twitter comments. Jean Laughton, who worked his coverage of the recent US of the broadcasters was able to In a blog Pearce wrote: ‘I on Gardeners’ World, will be golf Masters. get accreditation,’ Pearce ex- have always dreamed of com- held on May 10 at 2.30pm (after ‘I’m annoyed because it plains. ‘My brief was to get ing to Augusta. This year I have cremation, family only) at Knowle looks as though my integrity some colour pieces around finally made it.’ Parish Church, Kenilworth Road, is being called into question,’ the event– like reporting from This was a reference to a Knowle, Warwickshire, B93 OLN. he has told Ariel. outside the White House with- couple of visits he made to The Daily Telegraph claimed out going inside.’ the National course during his A MEMORIAL event for former PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR COPY OF ARIEL he had ‘given the impression’ But he ‘was at pains’ not to Augusta trip, paying for him- BBC executive Bob Phillis, jointly he was reporting live from the mislead viewers by claiming self as a golf fan and ordinary organised by BBC/The Guardian/ Augusta National, home of the he was live from the Masters. member of the public. ITV, will take place on May 13 at US Masters.