Olivia awards: the new editor of BBC factual strand Inside Story aims to show the personal side of issues such as obscene phone calls and women killers, by getting the audience close the people involved
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Olivia Lichtenstein is the editor of Inside Story which won a Bafta award for the programe The Silent Twin, about identical sisters. She previously acted as foreign news desk editor at ABC News' London office and was a reporter on TV-am. She produced Comrades, a series about the Soviet Union. The majority of her films have had audiences of about seven million.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 1995
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Restructuring and job losses at Sky after Reuters' link-up
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BSkyB's UK satellite service, Sky News, has announced about 20 redundancies and discussions are continuing. This follows the link up with Reuters to take over its newsgathering provision. Most of the job losses are amongst camera and sound operators, and the business department and foreign news desk teams have been dismantled.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 1995
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