30-03-2024, 12:42 PM
(30-03-2024, 11:28 AM)Omnipresent Wrote: On packaged reports, there is already a notable decline on Newsnight.
Ben Chu and Nick Watt tend to cover stories in the studio with the presenter, interspersed with clips of DTL interviews on the screen. It's obviously cheaper than an edited package from the field, but it can make the programme drag. Packages also allow presenters time to move to the next item.
It's the same on Radio 4. Programmes like In Business have been axed. They can be replaced with panels / two people pontificating in a studio but there is an abundance of these formats elsewhere.
On the cost bit here, while it may be cheaper than commissioning a full 'from the field' report, those 'wall' graphic sequences are very time consuming and pretty resource intensive. And they would probably cost about the same as the normal news package (which often includes agency picture or material filmed by the wider newsroom along with some bespoke content) when it gets to the end of the day. I would imagine it is more of a decision to diversify from the main news bulletins on other channels which would usually have covered that story with a traditional news package.