Television News, 4th Edition

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements to third edition

My grateful thanks especially to Ed Boyce at Meridian Broadcasting, and Tom Evans at ITN for sparing time away from their own duties – Ed as Head of Training and Tom as a programme editor – to cast their eyes over the finished manuscript and to make some very helpful comments, many of which I have incorporated.

Thanks too to Nik Gowing, Diplomatic Editor at Channel 4 News, for allowing me to quote from his excellent paper on the effects – or otherwise – of foreign news reporting on the policy of governments, with particular emphasis on the long-drawn-out conflict in Bosnia; to Ali Rashid, editor of Calendar, and Martin Brooks, Roger Bufton, Andy Griffee, Tim Manning, Gordon Macmillan, Roger ...