ABSTRACT
This section moves away from the ‘how to’ of daily broadcast news to look at broader themes of underpinning knowledge and developing a career. We begin with the field of independent TV production, where six in ten people are freelance and work on a variety of factual formats. This is the uncertain and challenging world that Fiona Chesterton (Chapter 18) describes when she explains some of the realities of the market place outside the newsroom. There is a world open to broadcast journalists outside of the news, and survival will be made easier by the many practical tips in this chapter, woven together with a message that correctly identifies journalistic skills as transferable skills.
