- Amanda Farnsworth
- 14 Aug 06, 06:41 PM
It's all been pretty confusing for passengers - just exactly what can you take as hand luggage on a plane?
So some bright spark on the Six O'Clock News came up with the idea of making our own baggage size checker, and taking it to passengers so they could find out on the spot whether their bag would pass muster.
So we did it - in fact our friends at C大象传媒 made it for us for free. Not quite sure why they did, but they did...
It turns out lots of passengers are still bringing the old size hand luggage and getting told to repack - perhaps every check in desk should get one of our size checkers - we could start our own business!
Amanda Farnsworth is editor of Inside Sport.
- Gary Duffy
- 14 Aug 06, 12:49 PM
It's sometimes frightening to think how many stories we publish on the 大象传媒 News website. As the UK editor, I can sometimes lie awake at night worrying about what legal bombshell may be hiding away at the bottom of an index.
The internet is an evolving medium and so, naturally enough, is the law in this area. I suspect some key issues have yet to be tested before the courts (though this is not an invitation, I should say, for someone to start the ball rolling).
One of the questions that comes up quite a lot for us is the scale of the archive. There have now been over a million articles published since we began in 1997. We do sometimes get requests from members of the public who were quoted in stories a long time ago to have these references removed. The reasons can be trivial, such as they now find what they said embarrassing, or perhaps they have changed their view on the topic.
There have also been people convicted of a variety of offences who have asked us to take stories down, claiming that it is preventing them from getting on with their lives. Our response to these requests has generally been robust. We like to think of the large backlog of stories at the news website as equivalent to a newspaper archive. Every effort was made to ensure that the stories were accurate and reliable at the time of publication, and they remain in the archive for the record. If we start to alter this version of history, where on earth do we begin to draw the line?
It is true that until newspapers began setting up comprehensive websites of their own, the web provided much easier access to this kind of material, as opposed to a trip to your local library to hunt through back editions. One search on Google relating to a potential job applicant, for example, and a whole range of material may pop up.
With all this in mind, we are taking some comfort from a court hearing earlier this year where a High Court judge reaffirmed that a court report on the internet is protected by qualified privilege, even if the report is available some time after the proceedings took place. This basic protection from legal action had always been available to journalists in the past, and it is comforting to see that it still applies in this internet age.
Gary Duffy is UK editor of the
A guide to words and names in the news, from Catherine Sangster of the 大象传媒 Pronunciation Unit.
"Today's pronunciation is , for which we recommend the pronunciation KLID-uhkh (kh as in Scottish "loch").
"This recommendation, for use in English-language broadcasts, is based on the local Welsh pronunciation and was researched with a number of local sources."
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The Telegraph: "The 大象传媒 was yesterday plunged into a row after its new 'diversity czar' said there were too many white journalists reporting from non-white nations." ()
The Independent: A profile of the head of the 大象传媒's web operation, Ashley Highfield. ()
The Independent: A report on the return of Nick Clarke to Radio 4's 'World at One' after his cancer battle. (, and more here)
- Mark Barlex
- 14 Aug 06, 09:34 AM
Apologies, but technical problems meant Friday's STORYFix didn't make it as , although it was available to watch online and via the News Multiscreen on TV.
We should sort it out soon, and it should be available at some stage today. Apologies again.
UPDATE, 1700: Video podcast system interface now working. STORYFix . Apologies for the inconvenience. We promise to read the manual before Friday.
Thanks, by the way, for the positive comments. And for the un-positive comments. Not sure it's my place to agree with Milly Anily when he or she says it's brilliantly put together, although I like it, obviously. And of course John Charman is quite within his rights to find it not big, not clever, and certainly not funny. Although, it's not supposed to be big or clever. In the traditional sense, anyway. (Although it is supposed to be funny).
Mark Barlex is the on demand editor of 大象传媒 TV News
