EBU Live

Ben Hammersley's liveblogging of the EBU Radio News Meeting, Paris, May 2008.
If the threshold of breakability is not certain, you run the risk of confusing your audience…with the deadly result of a lack of trust in the news system… Vittorio Argento, RAI Radio Uno, Italy
Stefan Troendle, Crisis Team Editor, SWR, Germany
Stefan Troendle, Crisis Team Editor, SWR, Germany
At the time, the transistor was a ten-year-old invention. Just like the internet today. Gilles Schneider, Secretary-General in charge of News, Radio France

The final session of the day

Then and now: 1968+40 - Gilles Schneider, Stefan Troendle, Vittorio Argento.

Arthur Landwehr asks the room if anyone would vote for John McCain…

silence

Explain. Explain. Explain. Arthur Landwehr
A SRF producer in Washington.
A SRF producer in Washington.
There are ten of us in Washington. Myself, and nine squirrels in my garden. Bertrand Vannier, Envoyé Spécial Permanent à Washington, SRF France
The journalist’s job is to make politicians uncomfortable, to explore evasions, contradictions and vulnerabilities. David Brooks, quoted by Albrecht Ziegler