is a new programme called the catch up on bbc three. it s a three to four minute round up of the news. here s some of the first edition. next up, several conservative mps have told the bbc they re unsure whether or not to back the pm. it s after sue gray s initial report came out yesterday. you can see her here. she says that during the pandemic, there were failures of leadership and judgment and excessive drinking at number 10 and the cabinet office that s where the pm s top team works. her full report will be released at a later stage. well, lead producer of the catch up is rosanna pound woods, who s with us on the media show. now, rosanna, i know that before you even started putting a programme together, you did a lot of research about what younger people want from the news. i wonder what you found. yeah, we did. so we ve got a really good team in the audiences section of the bbc who put together several focus groups for us. so they found real people from across the uk, and kind
ok, now on bbc news, it s time for the media show. hello, i m ros atkins. welcome to this week s media show. we re going to talk about bbc three because it s back as a linear television channel, six years after the bbc decided it shouldn t be one of those. and we ll talk about spotify and joe rogan. he s in the middle of a storm over covid misinformation that may have been on his podcast, and some people are saying, should spotify really be funding content like that? we will get into all of the issues that raises. let me introduce you to our guests. we have elizabeth dwoskin, silicon valley correspondent at the washington post, jake kanter, media correspondent at the times, rosanna pound woods, who s a producer of the catch up on bbc three, and batya ungar sargon, deputy opinion editor on newsweek.
funding content like that? we will get into all of the issues that raises. let me introduce you to our guests. we have elizabeth dwoskin, silicon valley correspondent at the washington post, jake kanter, media correspondent at the times, rosanna pound woods, who s a producer of the catch up on bbc three, and batya ungar sargon, deputy opinion editor on newsweek. and, batya, i wonder you commission lots of opinion pieces. will you be commissioning something onjoe rogan? yeah, absolutely. so at newsweek, we really try to represent the full breadth of opinion relevant to americans. and so we re going to have pieces on rogan from an independent media point of view, we re going to have pieces from that sort of disinformation point of view, we have pieces talking about how this story is about the culture wars, about the class wars, about the race wars, so really trying to get at that story from all points of view. we ll return to spotify and joe rogan in a moment, but let s, first of all,
of the first edition. next up, several conservative mps have told the bbc they re unsure whether or not to back the pm. it s after sue gray s initial report came out yesterday. you can see her here. she says that during the pandemic, there were failures of leadership and judgment and excessive drinking at number 10 and the cabinet office that s where the pm s top team works. her full report will be released at a later stage. well, lead producer of the catch up is rosanna pound woods, who s with us on the media show. now, rosanna, i know that before you even started putting a programme together, you did a lot of research about what younger people want from the news. i wonder what you found. yeah, we did. so we ve got a really good team in the audiences section of the bbc who put together several focus groups for us. so they found real people from across the uk, and kind of most importantly in that 16 to 21i year old age group, outside of london, outside of the sort of metropolitan