[Charles]

Take a look at Franceinfo one time - they have a lot of what I’d call dynamic presentation, walking around and presenting from the newsroom - but it’s not tabloid in any way, shape or form. IMO it’s what Sky News should have evolved into. If you want an example of how Sky News could be more dynamic whilst still keeping their now-signature sober style - that is how it should be done.

Honestly, as a fairly regular viewer of Franceinfo, I think their presentation style has fallen off into a more standard routine lately, just like any channel that ever attempts a more dynamic, Sky News circa 2005 presentation style. These days, Franceinfo does very little walk-and-talk standup presentation in their newsroom atrium. It mostly consists of an anchor sitting at the same big long table with correspondents and guests.

As a producer, if you have the time and resources to produce up a newscast regularly and build those kinds of segments, it's great. But it takes work, and that work is always going to be secondary to actual newsgathering. You'll notice that you'll never see very much of that fancy presentation stuff when there's breaking news or even just on days that are busier than usual. That's because producers are often too busy trying to get the correct information and live shots on air and don't really have the time to worry about making things look fancy.

With that said, while I do like Sky News editorially, they are quite boring visually. It'd be nice to see something more than just some blobs of color behind the presenters. I've always preferred the ~2015 era graphics to the current ones, which just feel like a bland warmover of the old graphics.