News in the Regions : Plymouth Sound to Moray Firth

This book gives an inside view of journalists at work in the Midlands, Yorkshire, South-East England and Central Scotland - with relevance also to other areas. It examines news priorities, decision-making, sources and the differences between newspapers, television news and radio. Front Matter....Pages i-xv News Where You Live — and Who Controls It....Pages 1-8 What to Look For....Pages 9-14 The News in Yorkshire....Pages 15-24 ‘The People Nearest to the Ground’: BBC R. Leeds, Thursday 21 January 1988....Pages 25-37 From Miners to Majesty: BBC Look North, Leeds....Pages 38-49 Improvising on a ‘Rather Quiet Day’: YTV Calendar....Pages 50-61 A Conservative Newspaper’s News: The Yorkshire Post, 28–29 January 1988....Pages 62-73 A ‘Solid’ Community Newspaper: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner....Pages 74-77 Seven Journalists for Seven Days: Pennine Radio....Pages 78-82 The Midlands: ‘From Wales to the Wash’....Pages 83-87 Big City, Big News: BBC R. WM....Pages 88-98 Bombers, Beds and a Birthday: Central News West, 18 February 1988....Pages 99-113 Crisis in the Hospitals: Midlands Today, 22 February 1988....Pages 114-130 Eleven in One: Coventry Evening Telegraph....Pages 131-141 Olympics, Business and Ethnic News: The Post, Birmingham....Pages 142-150 Populists in Coventry: Mercia Sound....Pages 151-153 The South-West of England: ‘Ships, Celts and the Wednesday Walk-in’....Pages 154-166 Choice, Priorities and Decision: Spotlight (BBC) and Today (TSW)....Pages 167-176 The Western Morning News: 14–15 June 1988....Pages 177-184 BBC R. Cornwall and ILR Plymouth Sound....Pages 185-191 The News in Scotland....Pages 192-195 A People’s Paper: The Daily Record....Pages 196-201 Scotland on Screen: Two Strong Competitors....Pages 202-214 BBC R. Scotland and James Gordon’s R. Clyde....Pages 215-221 East and West: the Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald....Pages 222-233 You, the Jury....Pages 234-244 Back Matter....Pages 245-263