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Ed Fraser, the programme editor for the Wednesday September 14th edition of the Channel 4 Evening News arrives in the newsroom at 07.15, having spent the previous day planning for the programme. Before the 09.30 meeting with the newsroom team where stories for the day are discussed, there is a lot of preparation| to do.
Ed looks through the morning newspapers, checking to see if there are any new lines on the stories he plans to cover and begins to assign stories to reporters and producers. He draws up a provisional running order| of stories which will change as the day goes on. One of the challenges today will be to find guests for the programme. Another will be to find a light story to balance all the 'doom and gloom' stories in the running order so far.
There are already teams in place working on certain stories, for example, two teams in America covering the UN World Summit in New York and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and one team in Belfast covering the renewed rioting after a Protestant march was asked to divert from its planned route. As news editor|, Judy Laybourn is responsible for liaison with ITN freelancers and crews around the world. There is often a lot of last minute coordinating to be done, for example today she has crews in place in the UK to cover the fuel protests but they are on standby to move if the protests don't materialise. She has a list of diary stories, which she knows about in advance, but on the day there are always breaking news stories that she must react to. (Look at the Breaking news clip, in the 18.00 slot, for an example of this).
