‘Kids are interested in everything’: Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Lizo Mzimba on Newsround at 50
msn.comDe’Graft Mensah, leads the morning bulletin with a piece about World Book Day. This may not be news in the traditional sense, but is justifiable, says Guru-Murthy. “As a parent, I know it’s hugely significant – it’s what kids are talking about that day – so in terms of their world it’s the big story. ” Then there is a report from Ukraine about refugees, especially children, on the border with Poland.
This leads nicely into a feature by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s specialist disinformation reporter, about misleading news and how to spot it.
Doing a story such as Ukraine for children is not that different from doing any kind of story, says Guru-Murthy. “You try to explain as much of the history – the Soviet Union and Putin – as you can, briefly and concisely.
And you have to show quite a lot of the imagery, certainly the bangs and the disruption, but you would be very careful about the amount of distressing footage of people, especially of children. ”There is a duty of care to the viewer, he says.
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