The mechanical minds of editors and commissioners were on view last night as the BBC launched "We Are England", the narrower replacement for the regional current affairs slot "Inside Out". We got six half-hour films on different approaches to helping people with mental health problems. I'm not sure if the graphics were added centrally, or at the 'production hubs' in Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol, Norwich and London, but within FIVE MINUTES, each show had BIG FRIENDLY LETTERS, saying where they were...
and shows from Coventry, Tynemouth and Watford.
Next week's theme: Nightshifts - in Grimsby, Newcastle, Peterborough, Birmingham, Bristol and somewhere near London. After that: Bossing It, looking at local entrepreneurs. What happens when a regional journalist comes up with a story outside the given theme, I wonder ?
Maybe they could get it covered on one of the 14 local BBC TV news programmes at 6.30, one of the 40 BBC local radio stations, the popular BBC News website, or the collection of well-used local BBC Facebook pages? Or maybe they could get buy in for it to be covered on BBC Breakfast, the 1 o'clock news, the 6 o'clock news, the 10 o'clock news, one of the ten national radio networks, the domestic 24 hour news channel, or the 24 hour international news channel.
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