Monday, 26th of February, 2007

On invitation of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Anita Bhalla, our CR President was in Munich on Monday, February 26th. As Head of Political and Community Affairs, she presented  BBC – English Regions in Birmingham. More than 40 journalists, editors, producers and programme makers of the television center in Munich attended the presentation in the big conference room of the Bavarian Television.

The topics were :

1. Structure of the regional programming of the BBC
2. Tripleplay – coordination between internet, radio and television
3. Pilotproject – local tv
4. Videonation
5. User generated content

Mrs. Bhalla stressed on the position of the BBC towards the public in the so-called “Charter review” and especially on the public values in its different ways (democratic, cultural, educational and social).  This topic araised a great interest among the Bavarian colleagues.  Examples about active and informed citizenship were shown too.

Further aspects were also mentioned like the building of a digital UK or how  to measure performance.

The presentation was followed by a 30-minute-discussion. Citizen journalism in general and video journalism were some of the topics debated on.

More about this meeting you will be informed by the next "Newsletter" by the end of March.