Newsreader & Reporter thread

The Newsreader & Reporter Thread

This thread was initially created to cover the story of Anna Ford losing her voice and then covered stories such as the Iraq War with reporters on and off location.

Anna Ford had struggled to be heard throughout, with her voice completely going at some points. After her voice seriously faultered for a second time, Sophie Raworth (already in the newsroom) came to the rescue and took over the One from the headline re-cap at around 1318. No time for make-up either!

On the same day, Bill Turnbill was doing the Six as a replacement for George.

Slowly the thread evolved into a thread about shift patterns, which is what it is now aimed at.

It seemed to make sense to me to rename this thread The Newsreader Thread .

It should keep the forum a bit tidier if all posts relating to

Presenter shifts
Changes of usual presenters
Presenter cock-ups
Presenters standing up (a popular one..)
Main anchors on loction.
Additional things newsreaders must do while on air.

I'm sure I will be adding to this list, and PM me if you can think of any obvious things I have missed off!

ROFL!!! I've never known this before!!

I have just noticed this. Anna is still sat there though. Sophie was obviously rushed in as her hair and make up are, well, umm, not exactly to an ON AIR standard. The full belletin will be available to watch on the website after the bulletin is over.

I thought it was just a minor hick-up at the start and that a sip of water would sort it. Looks like Anna's suffering for the latest flu bug!

Sophie does look RUFF!

http://www.jamez.plus.com/sophie.jpg

She must feel honoured though to be sitting in George's seat for once.

I felt very sorry for Anna. It feels awful when you can't speak on air, and she was clearly is some discomfort. I can't remember anything like this happening before.

I'm just wondering whether they will post the full bulletin on BBCi shortly. Perhaps they wont after what happened.

Poor Anna! As Sophie said at the end, - hopefully she'll be alright for tomorrow! I've never seen anything like this happen before. If a presenter is struggling with their voice they usually manage to soldier on through the bulletin but it was quite obvious that Anna's voice was affecting the quality today - ie having to rush quickly to reports before she finished her link. Get well soon Anna!

Nope, the bulletin has been put online.

And what great viewing it makes too.

Anyone got the video of what happened?