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Anna: Hello I'm Anna Jones

Callum: And I'm Callum Robertson

Anna: And this is Talk about English coming to you live from our offices at BBC
Learning English in London.

Callum: And coming up today

Anna: news and eyewitness reports from around the world

Callum: tips from the experts on how to report for the media

Anna: comments and questions from our learners

Callum: win a mp3 player by entering our eyewitness report competition

Anna: and we take a look at the language in this week’s press

Anna: Today we continue our theme of looking at English in the media and this week
we focus on English and journalism.

Callum: How do you write news stories for radio? How do you tell a story with
pictures and words and how do you give an eyewitness report?

Anna: Well to help us answer those questions we’re joined in our offices today by Jo
Episcopo who is Manager in journalism and production training here at the
BBC World Service. Hello and welcome Jo.

Jo: Hello

Anna: Tell us about your job as journalism and production trainer here at BBC World
Service Jo– what does it involve?

Anna: Well we’ll be talking to Jo in more detail about her work a little later and
she’ll be answering some of your questions about journalism. But first.don’t
forget our live webcast vote - .where do you get your news from? Radio, TV,
online, newspapers or somewhere else. Let us know by voting on our website
now. We’ll give you the results at the end of the programme. .

Callum: Yes, it's time for our competition.. If you’d like the opportunity to win an mp3
player then listen on. We want you to send us your eye witness reports in
words, audio or video describing something you’ve lived through or something
that you are living though at the moment that you want to share with us. It
can be anything that you have experienced personally – tell us what you saw
and how it made you feel. The closing date for the competition is 18
th

September - if you want more details of how to enter then go to the
competition section of our website

Anna: Well if you’re not sure what an eye witness report is then what you’re about to
hear you may help. It’s written by the BBC’s former chief news

correspondent Kate Adie and defines a news reporter as an eyewitness.
“Being an eyewitness” is read by BBC producer, Amber Barnfather.

A reporter is an eyewitness. It's a privileged position, and one which is not easily
granted, especially in conflicts or times of crisis.

Press conferences, official statements, public relations and spokespersons, photo-
opportunities, and guided tour 'facilities' may be useful, but they are no substitute for
raw facts.

A reporter should hold to a central principle of being a first-hand witness, for there is
much that is veiled, interpreted and hidden


Anna: So that was the BBC’s former chef new s correspondent talking about how a
news reporter or a journalist has a privileged position as an eyewitness – their
job is to give a true and accurate account of events as they happen. Well
Callum, can you help us with some of the language used there please.

Callum: privileged position substitute raw facts
first-hand witness veiled,

Anna: Well Jo, what kind of advice would you give to our learners who want to
enter our eyewitness report competition and who aren’t chief news
correspondents? Can you give them some handy tips about how to write an
eyewitness account of an event or experience they want to share with us?

Callum: Well eyewitness reports are often associated with breaking news stories –
stories that are unfolding or happening as they are being reported. Well just over a year ago the people of New Orleans were the victims of massive flooding after Hurricane Katrina hit the United States. You’re going to hear some short news reports from that time – the first voice you hear will be the opening headlines of an American news programme describing Hurricane Katrina as the one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit America.. This is followed by an American reporter describing how a family is stranded – they’re unable to escape from the roof of a house and are about to be lifted to
safety by a helicopter rescue team. We then listen to two personal accounts by people directly affected by the floods.

NEWS HEADLINE
ROOFTOP RESCUE
The moment we got on the roof the entire house collapsed and the roof just flattened out. We
literally floated and jumped from roof to roof and piles of debris that would not sink there was
so much debris there until we got to a neighbours pick-up truck that it floated back got back to
not almost the fence and saw a refrigerator.

And the house kept popping up and down when the roof tried to come off and then all the
water came through the floor and bubbled up and filled up the house and it was unbelievable,
but my house is still whole and everything from here to the beach is gone.

Anna: Well the first voice we heard there was the newsreader or the anchor – the
presenter – reading the top headline in an American news programme. What
did news presenter tell us Callum?

Anna: And then we heard the first section of a report about the helicopter rescue from
the rooftop? What’s the expression the reporter uses that means they can go
ahead with rescuing the people who are stranded on the roof?

Anna : We’ll just listen again to the two personal stories of ordinary people who were
there at the time. First of all we hear a man describe how his family escaped
from their house after it collapsed. What did they do to escape?

The moment we got on the roof the entire house collapsed and the roof just flattened out. We
literally floated and jumped from roof to roof and piles of debris that would not sink there was
so much debris there until we got to a neighbours pick-up truck that it floated back got back to
not almost the fence and saw a refrigerator.

And the house kept popping up and down when the roof tried to come off and then all the
water came through the floor and bubbled up and filled up the house and it was unbelievable,
but my house is still whole and everything from here to the beach is gone.

Anna: So Callum – how do they escape from their house after it fell down following
the flooding?

Anna: And what did the woman say about her house. Did it survive the flooding?

Callum: My house is still whole and everything from here to the beach is now gone

Anna: Jo – writing a news story for the BBC – what kind of training are BBC
newsroom journalists and correspondents given?

Callum: And while we’re on the subject of news and current affairs we have a

question from a learner for you Jo. Ana from Peru wants to know

the following:

Anna: You're listening to Talk about English. I’m Anna Jones,

Callum: I’m Callum Robertson

Anna: And today we’re talking about English and journalism.

Callum: And don’t forget to vote on today’s topic – where do you get your daily dose of
news from? – all the details are on the website so please vote before the end of
the programme.

Anna: And while you’re doing that here’s a Songline to listen to. This looks at the
phrase ‘make or break’ and comes from a song by the Sugarbabes.

Callum: Well we asked you to write in with your comments about the kind of
journalism or type of publication you read for pleasure. Nerius from Lithuania
sent us his thoughts – his e-mail is read by a native speaker.

I guess that is a tricky question. The main point here is for pleasure. I could hardly imagine journalism
as a kind of pleasure, what I agree upon is that good journalism should bring you same degree of
pleasure when you are coming across the serious issues on the media and media should come up
with good professional view on it. One shining example is BBC reports from Our Own Correspondent.
Keep going...

Anna: N erius says that there should be a good professional view on the serious issues
in the news and he mentions the radio programme From Our Own
Correspondent as a good example of this Jo, can you explain what this BBC
programme is about?

Anna: Well we happen to have a short extract from a report that featured on From our
own correspondent. It’s by Mark Doyle who is the BBC’s world affairs
correspondent and in it he describes his trip to the Liberian rainforest with the
American charity, Conservation International. It’s a very descriptive piece of
journalism and could also be described as an eyewitness account even though
its not describing a breaking news story. Listen out for the descriptive
language- what does he describe in detail?
I was tra

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