Stuart Pinfold

Disclaimer

The views expressed throughout this blog are my personal views, and not those of either the BBC, BBC News, Trafficlink or any other organisations I work for, or quote or reference in blog posts. This blog is not run for profit, and no payment or payment in kind is accepted for blog posts.

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About this Blog

I work across the radio industry, mainly for the BBC.

My main work now comes from the World Service's Africa and Middle-East language service, where I work as a Studio Manager.

For 14 months after graduating, I worked in the BBC's News Traffic Unit. It's not what's happening on the M1 southbound, but the first port of call for correspondents around the UK and world ready to file a story ('despatch') to anyone from the World Service to the News Channel (ex-News 24), the Asian Network to BBC1 television bulletins, Radio 1 Newsbeat to The Today Programme.

I've also worked at BBC Three Counties Radio, Radio 5Live and Trafficlink, the company who supply traffic and travel news to BBC and commercial radio stations. Links to all these places and further reading can be found below.

Blogroll / Links

Where I've worked
BBC World Service
BBC Radio Newsroom
BBC Three Counties Radio
BBC Radio 5Live: Up All Night
Trafficlink

Studio Managing
History of the SM role
Role of an SM
Who does what in a studio?
Janey Gordon, my ex-lecturer
Wikipedia article
SM Profile (BBC Jobs)

World Service: AME
World Service: Homepage
World Service: Africa
World Service: Middle-East
BBC Focus On Africa magazine

News Traffic Unit
Nick Robinson's Column
Day In The Life of the NTU
History of the Traffic Unit
My BBC Correspondents Map

Radio people
Sarfraz Manzoor - Up All Night
Roberto Perrone - 3CR
James Cridland - BBC
Victoria Cook - 3CR
Justin Peterson - Trafficlink

Industry websites
BBC staff blogs
Media UK
Broadcast Magazine
Radiolicious

Other links
A Monkey's Revenge
spEak You're bRanes!