Blog posts tagged "Channel 4 News"

July 13, 2009 10:48 am No Comments

I appeared on court two at Wimbledon on Friday – the show court where the likes of Roddick, Federer, and Murray gave exhibition warm ups during the championships this year.

July 1, 2009 5:12 pm No Comments

Rare sighting today – me and my mentor in the Channel 4 News studio. In the 20 years I’ve been doing this programme Peter Snow has never stepped this way. It was nepotism that got me into this business and it looks like nepotism will get me out again. He could take over tonight.

June 23, 2009 10:46 am No Comments

I was minding my own business on Sunday morning, doing the washing-up from the night before. As is my want, I had Radio 4 on – tuned to Broadcasting House. As usual they had a panel of celeb newspaper reviewers on. Somehow Paddy O’Connell, for it was he, fell to asking the panel: “what’s the [...]

June 10, 2009 3:28 pm No Comments

Look, let’s start with a confession. Beyond being a lifelong supporter of Bright & Hove Albion (I can no longer name a single member of the team), I know very little about football. So imagine my joy when, upon entering the office this morning, I discovered that that raft of great players who were in [...]

May 8, 2009 8:54 am No Comments

I discovered this week our 13th pregnancy in a year. Yes, from a staff of little over 100, 13 of the women workers on Channel 4 News are either expecting or have just delivered babies. Six of the men workers have fathered or are expecting their partners to deliver babies… 19 out of 100 in [...]

April 27, 2009 12:43 pm No Comments

To the Bafta awards. Channel 4 News was nominated for its news coverage. The show is a love/hate thing. Interminably long and normally an absurd cramp up at the London Palladium, then a bus ride to some Park Lane emporium for dinner. A seven-hour marathon, redeemed last night by not being in a west end [...]

April 23, 2009 6:44 pm No Comments

I’m just kitting myself out for a curious task. Tonight I am the MC for The Media Society, who are going to give Paxo a lifetime’s achievement award. Mr Paxman is known for his fine stuffings. Indeed, the climax of the evening will be provided by the former home secretary, Michael Howard, who found himself [...]

March 23, 2009 11:44 am 45 Comments

I’m very struck by the response to the condom debate sparked by our interview following the Pope’s comments last week. More than 50 comments, and an interesting spread. I have I suppose what the Catholic church would call a “confession” to make. I did not handle it well. One must be honest about these things.

March 15, 2009 3:21 pm 9 Comments

In my workplace here we are 130 souls that put Channel 4 News together seven nights a week, construct More4 News five nights a week, the Channel 4 Noon news five days a week, and the Channel 4 News website. Somehow, in amongst all that, no fewer than 10 of our women workers have had [...]

March 9, 2009 3:51 pm No Comments

We’ve had an actor in here. He’s got a part in which he plays a whiz British news producer who is sent to a chaotic American newsroom to sort it out. I told him he should watch Broadcast News, still after all these years the best film ever made about our trade – even if [...]