Now in a few minutes itll be time for newswatch, but first heres click. Hey, welcome to click and welcome to my new office. Its a bit small but it does have one advantage, and thats that it can be absolutely anywhere. Hiya, fancy seeing you here. Hello, nice pod. Are you avoiding me in there . As we start to talk about the future of workspaces post pandemic, the go pod is one idea. It could be placed in the middle of an open plan office or a public face like a coffee shop, giving people the opportunity to be able to book a safe and private space. Yeah, this is about a future where people are starting to work partly in offices and partly elsewhere too. This hybrid working that were hearing so much about. And go pod want to put these things everywhere so theres always one nearby, because its all very well working in a cafe but sometimes you do need to take a private call or have a private meeting. And to do so, you find the nearest pod via the app where you can book it and pay for it. It
Speculation itself, notjust online, but across newspapers and broadcast media, too. It was back at the top of bbc ones headlines throughout the following day. Last night, the first of five News Agencies issued dramatically worded kill notices withdrawing the photo due to what the agency said were inconsistencies in the image. Then this morning, a social media post from the princess of wales herself, where she admitted altering the image. She said. Since Kensington Palace announced in january that the princess had undergone Abdominal Surgery providing no further details and asking for privacy theres been a growing tide of online rumours and Conspiracy Theories about her. But did the bbc this week abide by that request for privacy, or did it fuel the fire of those rumours . Hundreds of people sent us their views on this, including julie northeast, who wrote. And john stokes asked. Well, another viewer who got in touch with us this week was david force, and he joins us now down the line.
and watch on iplayer. a number of viewers, though, have told us they don t believe a news channel is the right place for a phone in show. here are two of them. we now have the option of watching either a radio phone in programme which is simultaneously broadcast on radio five if we wanted to listen to it or switching to a competitor s news coverage. none of which hold a candle to the bbc s normal offering. so between nine and 11 am, every weekday morning is now a news desert. we ve also lost a number of excellent news presenters, the likes of anita mcveigh and martine croxall, who brought empathy and interest to their broadcasts. and whilst i know that the bbc in these straitened times have to save money, surely there are other ways in which this can be done without losing the fundamental quality of bbc news coverage. if i wanted to listen to a radio phone in or even participate, then i go to the radio and television news and bbc news is a particular medium which is important
it s not easy to find quick fixes for housing problems, which could leave some students struggling next year, too. branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester. you are watching bbc news now newswatch. hello and welcome to news watch with me, samira ahmed. questions are asked after a news channel presenter talks of her glee during a paper review on the night borisjohnson pulls out of the tory leadership contest. i don t know, i don t think i ll be voting again after what happened to boris johnson. that reporter s staple, the vox pop. do we really need to be told so often what random strangers think? demonstrating impartiality on air, as we discussed on last week s programme, is one of the key goals and challenges for bbc news. it wasn t long before the fraught nature of that ambition was exposed again, with the addition of the paper review on the news channel on sunday night, shortly before it was broadcast on a day of high political drama, it emerged that borisjohnson had withdraw
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