Part One

BROADCAST JOURNALISM

‘The quintessence of journalism as high art: filling the void at zero hour on a subject you know absolutely nothing about.’

– TONY SAMSTAG, BBC WORLD SERVICE STRINGER, OSLO

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Figure 1   Going live … producing upwards of 100 hours of news programmes each week for 143 million listeners. No other station comes close. The BBC World Service. (Andrew Boyd)

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