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The running order on ENPS contains a column for the duration of each news story. At the beginning of the day, the programme editor assigns rough story durations|. As they work on their stories, producers and reporters may negotiate for more, or less, time. (If you look at the video clip on News Prospects which also appears in Morning meeting you can see international correspondent Lindsey Hilsum arguing that her Saddam Hussein trial package will merit at least six minutes.)
The overall programme running time is automatically calculated at the bottom of the page. At this stage in the afternoon there is a hole of around eight minutes in the programme but Ed Fraser, the programme editor, is confident that this will be filled by guests who will be interviewed live. However, there is still no news on a guest for the UN story and this is Ed's main problem. All the key people he would like to interview will be at the UN summit when the programme is on air.
Producers and reporters are finishing up their stories, but there are still decisions to be made about the length of pieces and their order in the programme. Ed speaks on the phone to a producer in Belfast to discuss the angle he has taken on the Northern Ireland story and negotiates a duration for the package. The producer gets an extra 15". Ed puts 3'45" against the story in the running order, but, of course, it may all change...
