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Making News

For the 'Free to speak' season, Allan Little presents this two-part series on the inside story on reporting, editorial dilemmas and the future of news-making.

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Part one - What makes news?

Centred around a day in the life of three news networks, part one of Making News compares the responses of BBC World, Al Jazeera Arabic and CNN International to the same day's events.

How does the news media operate? How does it deal with such geographically diverse regions?

Meet the news editors of each organisation. What's their editorial philosophy when it comes to deciding what makes reporting work?

Also in the mix, viewpoints from critics - John Pilger and Lord Douglas Hurd - who see TV's soundbite culture as having a negative effect on the news agenda.

More from this series

  • Part One

    Alan Little investigates if "objective" news and an impartial window onto the world are really possible?

  • Part Two

    What is the future of news when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts?

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