explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel THE BBC NEWSPAPER 09·02·10 Week 6 PHOTOGRAPH: ADRIAN WEINBRECHT PHOTO COMPOSITION: JAMIE CURREY a Happy birthday? EastEnders goes live - p8-9 216 News aa 00·00·08 09·02·10 a Collaboration and better use of social media will alter ways of working Horrocks tells journalists Room 2316, White City 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS 020 8008 4222 Editor change is coming, embrace it Candida Watson 02-84222 Deputy editor by Kate Arkless Gray Cathy Loughran 02-27360 Chief writer PETER HORROCKS, DIRECTOR of Global News, Sally Hillier 02-26877 has issued a challenge to BBC journalists – em- Features editor brace change, accept collaboration and make Clare Bolt 02-27445 use of new information sources like social Broadcast Journalists media, or re-consider what you are doing. Claire Barrett 02-27368 Delivering the keynote speech at the Global Adam Bambury 02-27410 News Creative Network ‘Fit for the Future’ ses- AV Manager sion in Bush House, (run in conjunction with Peter Roach 02-24622 the College of Journalism) Horrocks said BBC Art editor journalism needed to be more collaborative and make better use of the resources offered by Ken Sinyard 02-84229 sites like Twitter. He said there must be a cul- Digital Design Executive tural shift to take account of the way technol- David Murray 02-27380 ogy is changing both the job and the way audi- ences relate to output. He drew on his experiences as a former News- night editor to highlight the contrast between Guest contributors this week the programme-based mindset, and his vision of a more open and sharing culture in future. ‘There needs to be greater flexibility in the way that will be a good thing. It is a question of source for journalists, adding that ‘this isn’t ZOE KLEINMAN on protocols for we all interrelate to each other within the or- adapting to that and realising that that is go- just a kind of fad from someone who’s an en- news staff joining the Twitterati. ganisation,’ he said, explaining that this isn’t ing to happen.’ thusiast of technology. I’m afraid you’re not do- Page 6 purely due to the need for efficiency savings, He underlined the importance of understand- ing your job if you can’t do those things. It’s not but a result of a changing world in which the ing how audiences relate to the BBC brand by lis- discretionary’. TOBY MILDON making content lines between specialisms are becoming in- tening to feedback and looking at audience in- He rounded off his talk with a warning; more accessible for people with creasingly blurred. sight gained from marketing teams. ‘There’s still ‘There’s no excuse for failing to think about this disabilities Page 14 Turning his attention to editors, he said their a persistent, and I think outrageous, mentality to- and to throw yourself into it. If you don’t like role would increasingly become about curation wards marketing which sees it somehow as be- it, if you think that level of change or that dif- and selection, being aware of what others are ing a kind of lowlier function,’ he said, caution- ferent way of working isn’t right for me, then doing, and sharing it, with attribution. He said: ing his audience; ‘if there are any vestiges of that go and do something else, because it’s going Ariel mail ‘There will be more bringing things together in around, then that has got to go.’ to happen, you’re not going to be able to stop [email protected] W1. There will be fewer decision makers. There Horrocks spoke enthusiastically about tools it… There’s no point being unhappy, is there? will be less individual segmented control, and like Twitter and RSS readers as an essential re- You’ve got to enjoy it for this to work.’ Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS Unearthed: why BH had to be evacuated Advertise in Ariel Ten Alps Media 020 7878 2313 www.bbcarielads.com by Sally Hillier ‘The wrong YIP went out [between 8.30-9am],’ says parliamentary corre- Printing u TALKS ARE IN HAND with EDF over spondent David Wilby. ‘It was one that had Garnett Dickinson Group either replacing or removing entirely been broadcast two hours earlier.’ Rotherham 01709 768000 a power cable that developed a fault, This was particularly galling for Wilby, Subscribe to Ariel prompting a fire alert and the evacua- fellow correspondent Sean Curran and Six months: £26, £36, £40 tion of Broadcasting House last week. other colleagues who were at Millbank un- Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 The high voltage electric cable, which til almost midnight on Feb 1 preparing the despite lying inside BH is not used by programme. (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world the BBC (although it used to be, before The electrical problem also had a knock- respectively) redevelopment of the site), overheated. on effect for BBC Arabic and BBC Persian tv, Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, This caused a fire alarm to go off based in Egton Wing. Although on-air trans- Brookfields Way, Manvers, in the basement, resulting in evacua- mission was unaffected, broadcast-critical IT Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL tion just before 8am on February 2 and equipment was damaged. Tel 01709 768199 a hurried decamp elsewhere for some ‘We were prevented from using our INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY programme staff. Dalet editing kit, so had to do lots of live Telephone 0800 0688 159 As Radio 3’s emergency back-up CD interviews to fill air time, although our kicked in, following two minutes of audience wouldn’t have known there was Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 silence, the network transferred to a problem,’ explains Sadeq Saba, head of Ariel is produced by Internal contingency accommodation in nearby Persian tv. Communications for people at the BBC premises, from where Radio 4’s Woman’s Overall the BBC’s emergency planning Hour was also broadcast. worked well on February 2, says Caroline The TVC-based Today programme was Elliot, Audio and Music’s head of business unaffected. But You and Yours, which in- continuity. volves a live phone-in, had to be found a ‘The challenge was immediately to new home, from where it broadcast at 12 in Parliament, two editions of which are re- inform people who were already in the noon, as a precaution, almost two hours after corded each day. One lasts five minutes and building, at a time when a lot of people were PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR COPY OF ARIEL people were allowed back inside BH. goes out on Today at 6.40am; the other is 28 arriving for work.’ Radio 4 continuity also temporarily relo- minutes and goes out on Radio 4 long wave She paid particular tribute to broadcast cated (details remain confidential for secu- and digital at around 8.30am. duty manager Brian Roberts and duty facili- rity purposes) while Radio 3’s In Tune, along Last Tuesday the short version was aired ties manager Almiro Pereira Jorge. with guest musicians, switched to Maida Vale. twice while the 28 minute version did not go ‘All credit to them for the way they led the The main casualty was Radio 4’s Yesterday out at all. operation.’ > ARIEL ONLINE: BBC NEWS AS IT HAPPENS – EXPLORE.GATEWAY.BBC.CO.UK/ARIEL< a 09·02·10 News 3 PHOTOGRAPH: PHOTOGRAPH: ELLI Nanci Griffith, who received a lifetime achievement award Stars H UW JOHN OTT F shine at RAN R2 folk KS/BBC night The annual Radio 2 folk music awards were pre- sented last Monday night, in an evening of live music hosted by Mike Harding. Jon Boden was named folk singer of the year, while for the third year running Lau were best group. Best musician was squeezebox player John Kirkpatrick while Cara Dil- lon was presented with album of the year for ‘Hill of Thieves’. Bob Shennan, Radio 2 controller, said: ‘The Folk Awards are a fantastic way to showcase such a well- loved and thriving musical genre.’ Performance video, exten- sive features and a photo gallery can be found at bbc.co.uk/radio2. Entertainment controller Winning formula to pursue ‘new options’ for motor racing by Cathy Loughran ‘After many hugely enjoyable years I WITH 19 RacES involving 13 teams, a can use the red button to follow prac- have decided that it’s the right time head-to-head between Jenson Button tice sessions and get post race analysis Jon Beazley, the executive who com- to leave the BBC, take a break and and Lewis Hamilton, both driving for – also accessible on the sport website, missioned Friday Night with Jonathan consider some options available to McLaren, and the return of Michael which will invite emails and texts. Ross and Strictly Come Dancing, is to me before deciding what’s next. Schumacher, Formula 1 fans have Radio 5 live and 5 live Sports Ex- leave the BBC. ‘I’ve been having informal discus- plenty to look forward to this year. tra promise live commentary of eve- Controller of entertainment group sion about this for some time. Now The new season starts on March ry race, as well as coverage of practice since 2006, Beazley has announced it’s important to think about hand- 12 in Bahrain and once again com- and qualifying sessions.