Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism in which major news stories are discussed at length in a timely manner.
10-477: CrossTalk is a current affairs debate television program on RT . It is billed by RT as "RT's flagship program." It is hosted by American journalist Peter Lavelle , who created the show. It also features Yelena Khanga . CrossTalk premiered on September 30, 2009 and airs for 30 minutes. Guests are encouraged to intervene whenever they wish which, according to Oliver Bullough in the New Statesman , means
20-531: A "balanced pair of experts". An edition in July 2016 was a response to a NATO summit in which all participants were critical of the alliance. One participant said NATO was "a minute group of megalomaniac powerbrokers hell bent on sending us into a third world war". According to Lavelle, he had been prevented from showing a defence of NATO in captions because of technical problems, although anti-NATO captions were shown. The programme has conveyed conspiracy theories that
30-540: Is a history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography . The magazine was founded after the Second World War, by Brendan Bracken , former Minister of Information , chairman of
40-607: The Financial Times and close associate of Sir Winston Churchill . The magazine has been independently owned since 1981. The founding co-editors were Peter Quennell , a "dashing English man of letters", and Alan Hodge , former journalist at the Financial Times . The website contains all the magazine's published content since 1951. A digital edition, available on a dedicated app, was launched in 2012 and re-released with improvements in 2015. History Review
50-497: The Private Eye , The Economist , Monocle , The Spectator , The Week , The Oldie , Investors Chronicle , Prospect , MoneyWeek , New Statesman , Time , Fortune , BBC History Magazine , and History Today are all sometimes referred to as current affairs magazines. This journalism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . History Today History Today
60-581: The Nine Network in the 1970s focuses on community issues not usually discussed by major news bulletins. Recurring stories include: hoons , dodgy tradies , neighbours from hell, and corruption. They also run numerous stories about local legends as well as various lifestyle tips. Today Tonight produced by the Seven Network from 1995 to 2019 was also similar in format, covering stories comparable to that of ACA. Additionally, newspapers such as
70-641: The September 11 attacks were an inside job and AIDS being caused by AIDS drugs themselves. Current affairs (news format) This differs from regular news broadcasts that place emphasis on news reports presented for simple presentation as soon as possible, often with a minimum of analysis. It is also different from the news magazine show format in that the events are discussed immediately. The UK's BBC programmes such as This World , Panorama , Real Story , BBC Scotland Investigates , Spotlight , Week In Week Out , and Inside Out fit
80-543: The conversation can "degrade into barely comprehensible shouting". In a 2010 episode of CrossTalk , Lavelle's two guests — Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion and Anne-Elisabeth Moutet of the Rousseau Institute — were taken aback when he said that the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks were "not fundamentalists". Lavelle later said this particular episode was a "fiasco" because he lacked
90-399: The definition. In Canada, CBC Radio produces a number of current affairs show both nationally such as The Current and As It Happens as well as regionally with morning current affairs shows such as Information Morning , a focus the radio network developed in the 1970s as a way to recapture audience from television. In Australia, the aptly named A Current Affair developed by
100-485: Was a tri-annual sister publication of History Today magazine publishing material for sixth form level history students. Launched in 1995, the final issue of History Review was published in April 2012. Since 1997, The Longman- History Today Charitable Trust has held an annual awards ceremony at which presentations are made to those that have fostered a wider understanding of, and enthusiasm for, history. The main prize in
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