date: Fri Oct 10 09:33:33 2003 from: Mike Hulme subject: Fwd: Reinventing Economics Coverage? to: a.minns@uea.ac.uk Asher, An interesting question. I would have thought that a few of us here - Neil, TimO, myself, plus one or two others - would make a useful group for Vicki to meet if she came up to UEA. What do you think? Mike Subject: Reinventing Economics Coverage? Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:51:12 +0100 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Reinventing Economics Coverage? Thread-Index: AcOOfSnfziiEQXdvQByJUzCS6UCzxA== From: "Vicki Barker" To: "Mike Hulme" Dear Dr. Hulme, My colleague Roger Harrabin suggested I contact you. I am about to spend several months attempting to answer the following question for senior BBC managers: If we were to reinvent economics coverage from scratch, TODAY, incorporating what we now know (or think we know) about global environmental and economic trends... what would it look like? In recent years, I have watched an environmental undertow beginning to tug at economies around the world, even as the world's peoples have been awakening to the realities of an increasingly-globalized economy; and I have wondered if current newsgathering practices and priorities are conveying these phenomena as effectively as they could be. Is this a question you and some of your colleagues feel like pondering? I'd be delighted to come out to the Tyndall Centre, either during the first two weeks of November or in early January, when I return from an extended trip abroad. The report will be delivered in March or April. I will ring your office in a day or two to see whether or when it would be convenient for us to meet. Alternatively, you can reach me at this address. Regards, Vicki Barker BBCi at [1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.