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The programme editor's role| involves liaising with reporters, producers, correspondents and technicians in order to decide how resources should be allocated, how a story will be done, and where cameras should be sent.
Charlie Beckett is one of several programme editors who works according to a rota. He has a planning day in the newsroom before leading the programme editorially the following day. On the day of the broadcast, he has to come in at 7:00 to take his team through the day, and does not leave until the cameras are switched off and he has had a quick chat with his co-workers.
Charlie says that he has no specific way of international news| has become more important for broadcasters in the last 10 years, and issues like the role of America and the war in Iraq are now a huge part of the news agenda.
On the day of qualities and skills| needed by a programme editor.
The job has its challenges|. Charlie is sometimes frustrated by the physical limits of what you can show a television audience, but says that at the end of the day, having an intelligent prime time news programme go out is a fantastic experience.
