Paper Round
Mediaweek has a handy daily round up of what’s in the news along with the front pages from the UK’s newspapers, including The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Mirror, The Independent, City AM,...
View ArticleTop Ten of (Almost) Everything
If you like lists you’ll love listverse where you can find top ten lists of everything from “10 Notable Apologies from the Last Decade” to “10 Stories Behind Beatles Songs”, “Top Ten Very Unfortunate...
View ArticleTips for Producing Archive Programmes (and Developing New Ones)
UK-based indie Testimony Films specializes in making documentaries about “people’s life stories". They often do this by using rare archive film. Earlier this year, at the Broadcast Factual TV Forum,...
View ArticleThe Demographics of England and Wales
The UK Office for National Statistics has published demographic data for the 54million people in England and Wales, broken down in to age, sex and ethnicity. Read (a little) more in The Guardian.
View ArticleDiscovery Science News Website
If you need a science fix try Discovery’s online science and technology news site. It’s got Earth, Space, Sport, Dinosaurs, Human, Tech and History sections to explore.
View ArticleExpert Witness
Expert Witness professes to “provide open and easy access for the Legal and Media professions to Experts in all of the disciplines for which they may need expert advice or guidance”. The have an online...
View ArticleGreenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas From Concept to Pitch by Nicola...
There are some simple principles to successfully developing and pitching your ideas, whether you are working for a global 'super-indie' production company, or are a documentary filmmaker pitching a...
View ArticleCritical Past Archive
Critical Past is a new history-focused online photo and video archive that has 57,000 royalty-free clips and 7,000,000 still photos collected from U.S. government agency sources. Footage and images...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick’s Chicago and Other Archive Images
In 1949 a 21-year-old Stanley Kubrick was sent on a photojournalism assignment to Chicago. The resulting photos are now in the Library of Congress, but you can see some of them on Chris Wild’s...
View ArticleThree Ways to Develop Programme Ideas Using Twitter
When labouring at the coalface of a development slate, you need as many tools as you can get your hands on to excavate those elusive gems that are eye-catching enough to catch the eye of a...
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