Panorama and Dispatches documentary-maker says financial pressures are curtailing newspapers' and broadcasters' reporting
UK newspapers and broadcasters' commitment to spending money on investigative journalism is "dying a death", according to a leading documentary-maker.
Kevin Toolis, a director and co-founder of independent producer Many Rivers Films, which makes investigative films for BBC1's Panorama and Channel 4's Dispatches, blamed financial pressures for this dwindling commitment.
"I did a commission a couple of weeks ago for the Sunday Times magazine with a very, very distinguished photographer, and you'd be amazed at how little he was paid," Toolis told a panel at the Sheffield Doc/Fest today.
"The Sunday Times – one of the most powerful, richest media institutions – just no longer sends people abroad; it'll use its own people. But then you will not have same engagement of media professionals trying to undercover something, because it takes money and time – you have to send people,...
UK newspapers and broadcasters' commitment to spending money on investigative journalism is "dying a death", according to a leading documentary-maker.
Kevin Toolis, a director and co-founder of independent producer Many Rivers Films, which makes investigative films for BBC1's Panorama and Channel 4's Dispatches, blamed financial pressures for this dwindling commitment.
"I did a commission a couple of weeks ago for the Sunday Times magazine with a very, very distinguished photographer, and you'd be amazed at how little he was paid," Toolis told a panel at the Sheffield Doc/Fest today.
"The Sunday Times – one of the most powerful, richest media institutions – just no longer sends people abroad; it'll use its own people. But then you will not have same engagement of media professionals trying to undercover something, because it takes money and time – you have to send people,...
- 11/4/2010
- by Josh Halliday
- The Guardian - Film News
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