I first met Steve Mitchell when I left local radio and started working for a little- known but vital part of the BBC called GNS, the General News Service, and he was my boss's boss. It supplies all the national
It must be the weirdest location for a radio station in Britain, almost 400 feet up in the air, and housed in what looks like a giant concrete sceptre that protrudes from the Liverpool skyline.
John Stapleton, 62, is the presenter of GMTV's The News Hour. He celebrates 10 years hosting the programme with co-presenter Penny Smith today. Over a 40-year career, Stapleton has interviewed every prime minister since James Callaghan, and reported from the
In the editor's office of City AM there's an Alsatian - wearing fashionably rimless spectacles and a Raymond Weil Swiss watch. Allister Heath, who has recently taken the helm at the world's first free daily financial newspaper, speaks with just
At a time when ITV's share price is plummeting to all-time lows, there remains at least one slice of the broadcaster's pie which ensures Michael Grade, its ebullient executive chairman, retains his appetite for the job.
How is the digital revolution changing the way in which music fans own their music and identify with musicians? To what extent is the internet rewriting the history of rock 'n' roll?
It was Jane Moore's "Get Me Out Of Here ... I Don't Want To Be A Celebrity!" moment, the one occasion when she really felt what it was like to be burned in print by the searing criticism of a
KJZZ's Paul Atkinson speaks with Diane MacEachern about why it's important for consumers to consider the environmental impact of the products they buy including bottled water.
Pope Benedict XVI transformed a four-story-deep hole at the bedrockofGround Zero into a prayer site Sunday morning, lighting a candlesymbolizing resurrection and praying with victims of the Sept. 11attacks for "peace in our violent world."Drizzle and heavy mist shrouded the
Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were first admitted byAmericancourts as a way to link suspects to crime scenes, a new and verydifferent class of genetic test is approaching the bench.Ratherthan simply proving, for example, that the blood on a suspect's
Sen. Barack Obama launched an array of attacks in the final weekendbefore thePennsylvania primary, hoping to regain momentum and increase pressureon Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to drop out of the race for theDemocratic presidential nomination.Aftera six-week stretch featuring the kind
High in the Himalayas, above the peaceful valley of Punakha, inBhutan, where farmers till apatchwork of emerald-green fields, an icy lake fed by melting glacierswaits to become a "tsunami from the sky."The lake is swollen dangerously past normal levels, thanks
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a freshwave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had justbeen branded â the gulag of our timesâ by Amnesty International, therewere new allegations of abuse from United Nations human
A 22-year-old bicyclist was killed early Sunday when he was struck by a car in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Near Northwest Side, and police are urging city cyclists to use caution as the weather gets warmer and more
A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four
Threatening graffiti has spread like a virus through Chicago-area schools over the past two weeks, forcing police and educators into the thankless position of discerning legitimate threats from pranks and deciding whether to cancel classes.Â
There's good news to report on that two-year-old blown into Lake Michigan at Belmont Harbor. As CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports, a family friend says the little boy is improving.
