TV news

If you want to hear breaking news from the mouth of a BBC correspondent (when that correspondent is the only one with the story) get a tv. The senior service of radio is relegated in new internal rules which apply from next week. And dear old Five Live ranks behind Today (presumably even when Thought for The Day is on), and could get biffed by The World At One and PM - so that's Five Live for the latest domestic news 1200-0600, 0900-1300, 1345-1700, 1800-2400. Keep it by your radio.  


New Rules:

• The correspondent/reporter should file a few sentences of text for use by the website, twitter, the News Channel and BBC World News channel straps, topline ENPS and the Portal and for use by presenters on air. 

• The newsdesk should direct the work of a corr/reporter in the field, but if they are to be two way-ed, they should first go to either the News Channel on a domestic story or BBC World News on an international story.

• After that an order will be established by the newsdesk – Five Live, WATO/PM on domestic stories and World Service Radio and/or relevant Language Service on international stories. 

Exceptions: 

• If the Today programme is on air, this becomes the domestic priority. 

• If an event occurs abroad which has exceptional significance to the agendas of UK programmes then Newsgathering may change the normal order of priorities for international news.