May 2008
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“If the threshold of breakability is not certain, you run the risk of confusing...”
– Vittorio Argento, RAI Radio Uno, Italy
Centurion Risk Assessment Services →
“At the time, the transistor was a ten-year-old invention. Just like the internet...”
– 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.
Rush Limbaugh →
Arthur Landwehr asks the room if anyone would vote for John McCain… silence
“Explain. Explain. Explain.”
– Arthur Landwehr
Frédéric Bartholdi - the sculptor of the Statue of... →
“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...”
– David Brooks, quoted by Albrecht Ziegler
Up now: Albrecht Ziegler, Washington Correspondent, ARD Germany, Bertrand Vannier, Washington Correspondent, SRF France, Arthur Landwehr, Editor-in-chief, SWR Germany.
“You can’t put a group of journalists in a room without them discussing the...”
– Aine Lawlor
“When we were in a dominant position, we weren’t asking ourselves...”
– Patrick Pépin
“Is Ofcom’s stress on plurality misplaced?”
– Matt Morris
The Future of Radio - The Next Phase | Ofcom →
The first and second reviews of Public Service... →
The BBC Trust | BBC Trustees →
Ofcom - the UK regulator →
“A broad output provides a scene for the exclusive”
– Swedish Radio mission statement
Aine: Is it our job to be sure to be sure, or is it our job to be first?
Staffan Sonning: ...our ambition is to be first, but triple-checked...
“[Advertising] is so marginal, it won’t be missed.”
– Patrick Pépin, after noting that none of the senior management of Radio France are there to stop him.
“It’s all going to be about content: I think that public radio will be...”
– Patrick Pépin
“Objectively, the best ally the public service has in its offering is the market.”
– Patrick Pépin
Good morning, welcome back. This morning’s first session starts in a few minutes, featuring Patrick Pépin, Audience Mediator, SRF France, Staffan Sonning, who we met yesterday, and Matt Morris, Head of News, BBC Radio Five Live.
That’s it for today. Back at 930 Paris time tomorrow morning.
BBC Correspondents Map by Stuart Pinfold →
BBC - Today programme - Mike Thompson in the Congo →
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The maths of Eurovision... →
“I’m conscious that I’m the only thing standing between you and a...”
– Chris Berthoud from the BBC. Good man.
Arthur Landwehr, Editor-in-Chief, SWR, Germany. Chris Berthoud, Interactive Editor, BBC News Programmes - for the final session of the day.
Just as an aside from your humble blogger: Henry Ford once said, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse.”
“63% of Austrians describe “Medical Supplies” as an important news...”
– Slides from Bettina Roither-Epp
“In the 24-40 [year old group] the need to be informed doesn’t seem to be...”
– Maria-Dominique Chevreux
Maria-Dominique Chevreux, paraphrased, young people don’t talk about media: they talk about content. They don’t talk about televisions: they talk about screens.
Maria-Dominique Chevreux is presenting a survey of French households and the technological uptake within them. The figures are much lower than other countries, if you ask me, but still show a massively changing media landscape - only 10% with a games console, compared to 40%+ in the USA.
Maria-Dominique Chevreux, Director of Audience Research, SRF, France, and Bettina Roither-Epp, Editor-in-Chief, ORF radio, Austria, are up.
“If we don’t wake up to the new attitudes of the news consumer, then...”
– Tim Overdiek, Deputy-Editor-In-Chief-In-Ten-Days, NOS News, Netherlands
“We have to accept that very often the answer is “internet”.”
– Miodrag Soric