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So the previous regional mayor, borisjohnson famously- wasnt able to name him. even though he was a conservative. that was tim bowles. there was a bit of a boris moment when he came l to visit gloucestershire . in the election campaign. but labours dan norris seems to be i taking a different tact and is a lot i more prominent and in fact - we are hearing a lot more from him straight from the outset. so yeah, clearly that photo again, we dont know- how contrived that was. we know that his dog doe...

Cycle for story. its beginning, its middle, its end and the publication cycle of whatever your news product is. of course. katy, you also work for a weekly publication. you work for the spectator. do you think of the news cycle in a similar way then? yes and i think in terms of the political cycle, i because im covering politics for the spectator we have i the website and that will dominate. we have a weekly issue and work on whats still relevant _ on a saturday in terms - of the bigger politica...

The passing of prince philip. whats taking place right now at the gaza strip, the european super soccer league debacle, these are all stories that have global and local interest and cut across all general news and market moving news capabilities. michael, we will chat to you a little bit more in a second. i want to start by talking about the idea of the news cycle. its something that gets spoken about a lot. we usually think about it in terms of how long a story holds our attention before we wan...

In a place in a few years where you are selling news directly to members of the public rather than through broadcasters and news agencies? do you want that to happen? yes, we are. in fact we made the announcement that were going to be launching subscriptions on reuters.com in the very near future. so i think the ways that you get reuters news via either other media companies are broadcasters or directly to reuters.com. or we have 0tt stations in partnership with other companies like samsung. jus...

It was fairly coincidental. i think its an interesting one because we are saying oh, we were all focused on that and was it an important thing? i think what it did was it almost summed up in a moment with lots of ministers, tory mps, looking at the results and saying another ten years of tory rule. i think thats very much getting ahead of themselves. but that image of a big, huge inflatable borisjohnson i think it shows you whether its hot air orjust the domination of the tory party in certain p...

The service that we feel we need to be providing. accuracy and speed are paramount. you mentioned those two things in parallel, accuracy and speed. is there sometimes a pressure to get things out so quickly that accuracy is under pressure and is threatened in some ways and how do you strike the balance? unfortunately, there is. you see news outlets battling that each and every day. there was an episode just last week in which there was in an inaccurate report within the states that proliferated ...

To you a little bit later on in the show. but first of all i just want to hear a little bit about this story of reuters, a little bit of history. once upon a time if im not mistaken there was a mr reuters, wasnt there? thats right. absolutely, the baron. reuters is a 170—year—old media company. weve gone from producing news via carrier pigeon to todays future of producing news in artificial intelligence. weve gone the entire gamut from carrier pigeons to ai. 170 year history, very proud of 2...

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And cant make it do so. the opposition often desperately wants the spotlight and it struggles to drag attention to it. and so that i think is the essence of it. we are often easily distracted. i think that is something that has benefits as well as drawbacks. i mention this because i referenced earlier the blow—up borisjohnson doll, which was huge and made a huge impact. it has all the hallmarks of a pr move. katy, i want to know from you is there anything to suggest that borisjohnson�*s team...

That was a freak event. it was not supposed to happen. and so when nicola sturgeon was saying she wasnt expecting to win the majority, she wasnt, because parliament was not designed that way. so thats the political news cycle. i want to zoom out for a second and talk about the forces that shape what we call news today. michael friedenberg, president of reuters, let me bring you in here. this is your specialist area. your company is in the business of feeding the news cycle, essentially. youre su...