Life or death challenges of a major TV broadcast union in the COVID era
How do you keep the cameras rolling at one of the biggest TV broadcasters in the world, in the middle of a global health crisis?
That’s been the challenge for Liz Corbin, Head of News at the European Broadcasting Union, a public service provider, whose programmes reach more than a billion people in dozens of countries.
She tol UN News's Daniel Johnson how it became necessary to push back against efforts to politicise the pandemic, while also ensuring that “life or death” information reached all those anxiously looking for it.
How do you keep the cameras rolling as a member of one of the biggest TV broadcast organizations in the world, in the middle of a global health crisis?
That’s been the challenge for Liz Corbin, Head of News at the European Broadcasting Union, a public service provider, whose members' programmes reach more than a billion people in dozens of countries.
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson in Geneva to coincide with the World Press Freedom Conference 2020, she explains how it became necessary to push back against efforts to politicise the pandemic, while also ensuring that “life or death” information reached all those anxiously looking for it.