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With talk of the BBC supposedly having presenters walking around the newsroom and pieces done from the balcony, I have to wonder if there will be any chance Sky will follow suit? They pioneered it in the UK, after all. Sky News Today from 2002-2005 was brilliant.

We'll have to wait and see what happens, but the BBC News channel were going to be making regular trips into the newsroom when they moved in to NBH ten years ago - they did a bit on the first day, then gave up pretty quickly. Not surprising, it added nothing and was presumably a pain to organise.

I do hope the same happens here - I have no problem with multiple presentation areas or standing presentation, but prancing about is at best pointless and at worst downright distracting and irritating. I know a lot of you have a fondness for the Sky News Centre era, but for me it was presentationally fairly indistinguishable from 'what if The Day Today team had done a follow-up special 15 years later'.

Presentation from the newsroom 'pit' happened far more when BBC World News first moved in to NBH. They'd regularly cross to reporters 'in the World's Newsroom' with a manual camera operator. 

From memory, the News channel did go into the newsroom on the first day on air in NBH with Nick Higham, the second day with Matthew Amroliwala (see video below), when the Queen opened NBH, when the Baton Relay came through the newsroom and one time when a bunch of viewers were taken around the newsroom to see how the newsgathering operation worked (Tulip Mazumbar was the reporter).

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Re. the video above, that is what they should be doing a bit more of. Not necessarily 'prancing around'. Not to please us pres geeks but even casual viewers would find it interesting how it all works. The behind the scenes live streams on Facebook were always quite popular.