BBCs bizarre arrangement.. BBC Urdus highly controversial head moving to Pakistan. From: Behrouz Afagh Sent: 03 November 2014 16:44 To: WS Urdu - Bush; WS Urdu-Pakistan Cc: Aamer Ahmed Khan; Liliane Landor; Nikki Clarke; Sarah Gibson; Olexiy Solohubenko; Fiona Crack; Iain Haddow; Meena Baktash; Hamid Ismailov; Sadeq Saba; Tarik Kafala; Murat Nisancioglu; Andrew Roy; Johannes Dell; Jenny Norton; Suzanne Luu; Paula Moio; Kathryn Tomlinson; Melanie Briggs; Heba Youssef; Laura Friedner-Natasha Wojciechowski and assistant Subject: Aamer moving to Pakistan Dear All To summarise the points that I made in our meeting with the Urdu team in London this afternoon, Aamer will be working from Pakistan for the next six months, running the service from there as Urdu Editor. He needs to be in Pakistan because of his personal circumstances and we have agreed with this arrangement, as a substantial part of the Urdu operation is based there. He will continue to be responsible and accountable for the Urdu service, and we will put in place regular editorial and managerial processes to make sure there is cohesion between London and Pakistan. Aamer will be chairing joint daily and weekly editorial meetings and reviews, and will be taking part via conference call in wider editorial/management meetings in London. He will continue to be the point of reference for communications within the service and with the wider BBC. Raja will continue in his role as Urdu News Editor and will fill behind Aamer in London, where necessary, as he has been doing for the past two years. This arrangement will begin from 15th November. Behrouz Mr Behrouz’s announcement has not answered the following questions:- 1: BBC’s announcement makes no sense when position of Editor Pakistan already exists. 2: Now there will be four editors instead of three.As such, there is considerable duplication of work. For example there is a Pakistan editor but there will be also Urdu editor in Pakistan and a News editor in London. There is also Social Media editor.There are three SBJs in Pakistan and another three in London. The BBC Urdu Service boasts 45 producers, senior producers and managers. Half of them are in London and half in Pakistan. 3: There are fewer reporters, most news is covered by producers manning the Islamabad or London desk. Since there is no news-feed from the field, stories are mostly written quoting state media, and are utterly bereft of BBCs own value addition. Many a times there are grave factual errors in their reports and Urdu Service had to remove published stories because of factual errors. 4: Also how come BBC’s cut in jobs to save cost and at the same time increasing the number of expensive managers? 5: Aamir Khan will base in Karachi thousands of miles away from Islamabad where Urdu operation is based. There is only one reporter and one cameraman in Karachi. Urdu Editor should be in Islamabad or London. 6: How is Raja Zulfiqar Ali being elevated despite the accusations of nepotism and bullying his staff in Pakistan?
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:01:11 +0000
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