At ten oclock, clive myrie will be here with a full roundup of the days news. First, the media show. Hello. This week im talking with michelle donelan, the Secretary Of State for digital culture, media and sport. She is the 11th Conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge Remit Everything from the Tech Companies to museums and Art Galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week and even eurovision. But before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. How does she keep up to date through the working day . And theres a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. Thats a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the ministers media habits. Yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as its come out, i look through playbook. I will watch a bit of sky news or bbc while im getting ready in the morning a
under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. it s 3:30. good morning to you. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the minister s media habits. yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as it s come out, i look th
when the opportunity arises. so you get a bit of time to do that? when i can. when you can. well, look, you know, you ve been secretary of state at the dcms for four months now and you ve recently announced a big u turn, a big policy u turn. why have you decided not to privatise channel 4? so i think i agree with my predecessor and many other predecessors that have looked at this issue before, that there are long term sustainability issues and threats to channel 4. we know that it is a dramatically changing media landscape out there, which you ll be only too familiar with. we know that linear advertising is taking a hit, organisations are having to evolve and adapt and become more dynamic to cope with that and channel 4 have a very rigid business model. the public broadcaster restrictions, for one, don t allow them to create their own content, which means that their ability to flourish is capped from the off. and that sustainability fuelled the decision under my predecessor a
and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the minister s media habits. yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as it s come out, i look through playbook. i will watch a bit of sky news or bbc while i m getting ready in the morning and obviously then try and stay alert throughout the day and see what else is happening. and then i ll read the papers at some point, either probably in the evening as well. and what about streaming services? do you have a lot of subscriptions? are you a netflix, disney+, what person? yeah, we ve got netflix and amazon prime in my household, so watch a bit of both. they re really good for unwinding. i find that i prefer the things that don t take too much brainpower. when you ve been through a lot of legislation or different policies, it s nice tojust relax sometimes, espe
has urged china to provide detailed information about the level of covid infections in the country. 60,000 covid related deaths have been reported injust over a month, but the chinese government has been accused of not releasing the full details of the pandemic. now on bbc news: the media show hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mi