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UK: Unprecedented coverage for Olympics

UK: Unprecedented coverage for Olympics

UK news organisations are gearing up to cover the Olympics on a scale never seen before.

The Times

The Times will be road testing working with its News Corp sister titles around the world to keep Times Online running as a 24-hour news operation. Times Online has been running all night in recent weeks by handing over its out-of-hours operations to a newsroom in Australia.
The Times will have a team of 14 coververing the games. Times Online news editor Jeremy Griffin said: "It's only really in the last few years that the true benefits of having the online team working with the traditional newspaper team have really come to the fore and we want to exploit that this year." The Times will also be sharing multimedia resources with News.com.au, which has built a studio in Beijing's Olympic media centre, where Griffin will produce a daily video report.

The Guardian

The Guardian is sending the largest team it has ever sent to a sporting event with a 15 strong team covering all the events in Beijing. The integrated team will run an Olympics desk in Beijing. "Everyone is working for everything - that's where we're heading as a business, so this is a moment where we do it this way," said Guardian sports editor Ben Clissitt.

The Sun

The Sun Online will be sending a video journalist to the games and freelance video journalists as well.

Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph is sending 19 journaliss to the Olympics, including feature writers and specialists.

PA

PA is sending a team of 27 to Beijing, the largest the news agency has ever sent to a games.

Source: Press Gazette

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Katherine Thompson

Date

2008-08-04 10:10

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