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Torpido1 post_id=11507 time=1620493258 user_id=857 Wrote:All seems to be coming together do we know how the logo will be used

I've got to say the logo is awful. I know that the "N" is for news but it looks to me that someone has just slapped it together in 5 minutes using either powerpoint or after effects.
Humphrey Hacker post_id=11520 time=1620497786 user_id=1128 Wrote:
Torpido1 post_id=11507 time=1620493258 user_id=857 Wrote:All seems to be coming together do we know how the logo will be used

I've got to say the logo is awful. I know that the "N" is for news but it looks to me that someone has just slapped it together in 5 minutes using either powerpoint or after effects.
To be fair, you could say the same thing about the Sky or BBC News logos and I’d argue this is more artistic than both of them.
Jon post_id=11648 time=1620567208 user_id=1050 Wrote:
Humphrey Hacker post_id=11520 time=1620497786 user_id=1128 Wrote:
Torpido1 post_id=11507 time=1620493258 user_id=857 Wrote:All seems to be coming together do we know how the logo will be used

I've got to say the logo is awful. I know that the "N" is for news but it looks to me that someone has just slapped it together in 5 minutes using either powerpoint or after effects.
To be fair, you could say the same thing about the Sky or BBC News logos and I’d argue this is more artistic than both of them.

Thats a good point but it raises the question of whether artistry or identity is more important in a channel's name?
London Lite post_id=11265 time=1620402215 user_id=953 Wrote:The latest addition to the regional reporting team.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1390690749562433538
Oh dear, this is the 'reporter' who was constantly moaning about being held to account over the fake and exaggerated 'news' stories she pulled from facebook :roll:

AllWillBeWell

BettyS post_id=11757 time=1620644368 user_id=1139 Wrote:
London Lite post_id=11265 time=1620402215 user_id=953 Wrote:The latest addition to the regional reporting team.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1390690749562433538
Oh dear, this is the 'reporter' who was constantly moaning about being held to account over the fake and exaggerated 'news' stories she pulled from facebook :roll:

Do you have any examples of this as I could not find anything online?
A London Reporter added to the team. Paul Hawkins who used to work for Sky and BBC joins.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/139171...74531?s=20
I found a potentially libellous Facebook page called 'Anna Riley Lies' which appears to be a one man mission to ruin her career when she was working for the Hull Daily Mail.

Anna herself is featured being a victim of trolling on Hull Live.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hul...ey-3872248
Not the first time a presenter from another rival channel has been on Question Time but Michelle Dewberry is on tomorrow's show with BBC promoting her that's she part of GB News.

https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/stat...2337752065

AllWillBeWell

Polly Evans (ex BBC South East Today) is joining as a producer.

https://twitter.com/Polly_Evans/status/1...0282704898
It looks like most of the regional reporters have been announced now, just now the (E/W) Midlands, East of England and the South West I think:

Scotland - David Donaldson
Wales - Lily Hewitson
Northern Ireland - Conchúr Dowds
London - Paul Hawkins
North West - Bradley Harris
North East - Rachel Sweeney
Yorkshire - Anna Riley
South East - Ellie Costello

While I would guess GB News' regional operations won't be the same scale as the BBC (possibly even home based?), I do think it's quite better than the BBC/ITV/Sky in that reporters will be actually based in regions across the UK - as opposed to a few larger bases for the BBC and fewer for Sky and travelling in and out of areas to cover stories.

That is in spite of the fact the BBC and ITV have regional newsrooms across the UK - their local journalists do not normally contribute to national news coverage as much as I would like.
It'll be interesting to see how big those patches will be. The Scotland, NI, Wales and London ones are obvious, but could we see Ellie Costello covering a patch from Colchester to Weymouth?

The old West of England patch on Sky News used to cover the West and South West of England, plus South Wales and even as far as South Hampshire/West Sussex until Harriet Hadfield joined as their Southern correspondent based on the Isle of Wight.