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Stewart, Brian - Interview

Item number (ISN):

117914

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1986-01-08

Item number (ISN):

117914

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1989-0108

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1986-01-08

Production company:

Carleton University Institute for Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Michael Martin

Description:

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Interview of CBC television foreign correspondent Brian Stewart. He talks about: the work of a foreign correspondent; his ambition from a young age to become a foreign correspondent; his career as a print journalist; his daily routine at his base at the CBC bureau in London, England; the work of the field producer and how this relates to the work of the foreign correspondent; what happens when the bureau decides to cover a particular story; the relationship between the bureau and the TV news desk in Toronto; logistics such as arranging transportation for the crew and the approximately 32 cases of equipment, getting visas, clearing customs, and getting drivers and interpreters in the destination countries; the difficulty in getting interviews with officials in foreign countries; his belief in doing his own shotlisting in the field; the importance of writing the story to the available footage; his having the subject clearly formulated before he goes out and does the story; the need to be flexible as story angles change in the course of a day; how the reporter and cameraman work together; the role of the reporter in writing the story; the amount of time devoted to hard news rather than features; his spending 70 percent of his time “living out of a suitcase”; the increasing amount of travel required of foreign correspondents; the importance of getting back to Canada to keep in touch with what the audience is thinking and feeling; the length of foreign corresponding postings to various locations; the hiring of a London resident as the cameraman on Stewart’s London-based crew; the occasional hiring of a Visnews; his desire to return to Canada in several years; foreign correspondent postings as plum assignments; the high profile of foreign correspondents; the move from film to video as the biggest change in TV news; the switch to videotape and satellite in adding to the workload, shortening deadlines and adding to the control by the news desk, decreasing the autonomy of the foreign correspondent; the advantages and disadvantages of being a Canadian foreign correspondent; reporting under dangerous conditions in Lebanon; his sense of gratification over his reporting on the famine in Ethiopia because he felt that his reports were helping people; and the obstacles posed by foreign governments regulating what can be filmed.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Ottawa.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

111685

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06820

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

113:50

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

111686

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06821

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

118:00

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

346600

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2000-05-0011

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

65:25

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1000524

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2000-05-0011

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1984-0164/0745
1984-0164/0746
C06820
C06821

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1181742

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

117914-C06820.WAV
117914-C06821.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

38:27

Made from:

C06820
C06821

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2000-05-0011

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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