Alistair Macdonald

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  Published on: 11/5/2008    Last Visited: 11/6/2008  

  Former award-winning TV reporter Alistair Macdonald gets hot under the collar about the recent handling of the Brand and Ross debacle at the BBC. Even the director general may need training in crisis news management, he says, whilst BBC managers obviously need help to know how to keep maverick talent on a tighter leash.
  
  Oh Aunty! What a mess! How on earth did the BBC get itself into such a tuck over the Brand and Ross debacle when it should have been so simple? This was a failure of management on a monumental scale, a failure of training as well as being crisis news management at its most inept. It was the Titanic equivalent of steering directly for the iceberg then jumping straight into the water and forgetting the lifeboats.
  
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  Former award-winning BBC TV reporter Alistair Macdonald has trained directors from more than 20 countries and is a member of The Professional Speakers Association. He is a founder of Alexander Macdonald LLP, a specialist consultancy and training partnership teaching better communication. Visit www.alexandermacdonald.co.uk for further details

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  Published on: 5/29/2005    Last Visited: 10/30/2006  

  In December, as I was teaching in Moss Side, I received a 'phone call from Alistair Macdonald of BBC TV North West News.Could I come for an interview on the box, he wished to know.I was somewhat apprehensive about this as it would be easy to turn the whole thing into a circus farce, but decided to go for it and keep it as sane as possible.After all, publicity was part of my plan and it would be good for the book I wished to write should the expedition be successful.If I managed to begin the trek and it was unsuccessful, then at least it would serve as an epitaph.
  
  I needn't have worried.Alistair conducted the interview with dignity.A few days later he rang me again, asking me if I would mind being filmed as I set off.
  
  "What?Getting on a number 66?"I asked.
  
  No, he explained, he meant to film me setting out from Timbuktu and during the 150 mile approach to my starting point, the village of Araouane.Then he wished me to film the actual crossing whilst he and his crew went around the longer, easier way to film my approach to Oualata at my journey's end.The whole thing was to be made into a half-hour documentary for the BBC.
  
  "I wouldn't mind," I told Alistair.
  
  Christmas was hectic.The expedition had to be delayed whilst I gave Alistair an understanding of deserts and he gave me a lightning course on the Bolex 16mm movie camera.Meanwhile Magic Bus went bust so the BBC bought me an air ticket to Algiers.
  
  On the 11th of January 1983 I boarded the 'plane.I crossed the Sahara by truck and car from the north to the south, took a boat up the Niger and met Alistair and his crew in Timbuktu a couple of weeks later.There I bought two camels.One, who in human terms would have been a skittish teenager, I solemnly named Pegasus because I found her near the airfield.The other, a matron, was designated The Traditionalist because of her dread of motor vehicles.These names were quickly shortened to Peggy and Trad.
  
  Then we set out north, me leading my livestock and Alistair captaining a truck and Land Rover.He would go ahead a few miles and film me as I breasted a dune or traversed a ridge before a watery sunset.A week later we arrived, exhausted, in Araouane for a couple of days final preparation and rest.
  
  It was my intention to aim at completing the crossing in 15 days.I intimated to Alistair that if I hadn't arrived by day 19 then I would be in trouble and would be very grateful for an attempted rescue.Then I handed him last letters, and my will, and he vanished over a dune to the south.
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  Alistair took these tapes for professional cleaning, as they would be impregnated with a substantial part of the Sahara and to play them in that condition would have been to destroy them.A few days after our return he rang me.
  
  "I've just played the tapes," he said with all the enthusiasm of a successful lottery punter."They're GREAT!You're DYING!"
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  Alistair declared that the journey was, ' ... absolutely staggering.Ted's expedition has set new standards in exploration.He has done something not just as well as the Arabs, but better!'

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  Published on: 8/27/2009    Last Visited: 9/26/2009  

  Alistair Macdonald, award-winning BBC TV reporter and producer, teaches directors, partners and senior managers how to connect with contacts at business events.

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  Published on: 1/25/2008    Last Visited: 9/15/2009  

  The day will be led by Alistair MacDonald, former BBC environmental correspondent and other speakers include Colin Cram, regional director NWCE.

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  Published on: 12/10/2007    Last Visited: 12/10/2007  

  Alexander Macdonald is a specialist media training consultancy, created by Ann Alexander and Alistair Macdonald.
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  Alistair Macdonald is an award winning BBC TV reporter and producer.

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  Last Visited: 12/25/2008  

  Alistair Macdonald knows what makes the news.
  
  For 20 years he was an award-winning BBC TV reporter and producer, winning accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now he teaches directors, partners and senior managers how to develop their businesses by making the most of free editorial space on TV, radio, the Internet and in newspapers. He's worked with senior management from more than 20 countries and from five continents.
  
  Alistair's special skill is story telling. He is an entertaining, informative and inspirational public speaker who has enthralled audiences up to 1,000 strong. He is a member of the Professional Speakers Association.

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  Last Visited: 8/27/2009  

  On the Saturday evening we had lectures from Leo Dickinson, one of the world's outstanding outdoor action filmmakers and Alistair MacDonald, award-winning BBC TV reporter and producer.

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  Published on: 5/18/2009    Last Visited: 10/22/2009  

  Former BBC TV reporter Alistair Macdonald,will teach you to be memorable whether it's a 1-to-1 meeting that's worrying you, a small presentation or a major speech. His workshop will teach you:

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  Published on: 8/24/2008    Last Visited: 8/24/2008  

  Aster will be accompanied by former British and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion Scott Welch, her regular walking companion former BBC Environment Correspondent and media consultant Alistair Macdonald, financial advisor and broadcaster Austin Hutchinson, and IT manager Chris Robinson.

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  Last Visited: 3/15/2009  

  Former BBC TV reporter and journalist Alistair Macdonald will show you how to be just as successful even in the teeth of a recession.
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