Personal profile
Julian March is the Executive Producer for the Sky News website www.sky.com/news (opens in a new window)
He crossed the newsroom floor from TV to the web in January 2007. Previously he edited the breakfast show "Sunrise", where he broke the news of the London Bombings, and then moved on to "Live at Five" with Jeremy Thompson. In 2005 he won a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Innovation for an on-screen ticker allowing survivors of the Tsunami to get a message home to loved ones.
Julian loves languages - he’s a graduate in Russian and German, speaks Italian and French, and can just about manage in Danish. During a year studying Russian in St. Petersburg, he indulged his passion for Latin American percussion by joining a band and recording an album, all while dodging the gun-toting mafia.
Julian is married to a half-Italian BBC Correspondent, with whom he has a beautiful baby daughter; he’s addicted to cycling, and cooks a mean fish pie
Q&As
Describe a typical day
05.30 Get up and log on to Sky News, BBC and Times online, check out what we have versus what they have. Listen to Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money.
06.00 Cycle to work.
07.00 Behind desk - check overnight emails, sort any early issues before
07:30 Team meeting we discuss what stories we'll do on the website.
08.00 Join big morning meeting to discuss agenda on all platforms - Online,
TV, Radio, Five News. Decide Editors Picks, the area half way down the home page where we showcase content which may not be breaking news.
09.00 onwards
Meetings with Developers and Flash designers building new parts of our site.
Get the latest on the re-launch of our new site, and our plans for stories to wow users when we launch. Make sure site is doing the right stories and we're putting them in the right place on the site.
Reacting to breaking stories as they happen - deciding how we cover them and what prominence they get.
Monitor performance on Hitbox, an online analytics tool, which shows us who is looking at what on our website. Late lunch at my desk.
Talk to correspondent bloggers about their new blogs, and get them showcased. Liaise with Head of Online Newsgathering about stuff coming up tomorrow. Make sure late guys are happy with things for the evening.
End of the day
Cycle home, pick up daughter from nursery. Bath her, feed
her, put her to bed. Check website from home while making supper. Call in if necessary. Have 45mins chill out before bed and doing it all again.
What's the best career advice anybody has ever given you?
Don't be afraid of the donkeywork.
What are the low points of the job?
Not being able to give concise answers to questions at my first interview for an Executive Producers job.
And your greatest achievement?
Collecting a Royal Television Society Award for coverage of the Tsunami. I got survivors to post messages home to our on screen ticker so relatives at home could see they were safe.
Advice to anyone who wants to work in journalism?
Get to know how the best websites do their thing. Why not create your own blog?
What's special about online?
They don't call it multimedia for nothing. Web journalism can do everything old media does: Video, Text, Audio, it can be live streamed, or it can give users what they want, when they want.
Most importantly, though, online changes the relationship between sky news and its customers. They are no longer just an audience, reading, listening, watching. They are participants in the experience.
They can add their own comments and discuss the news, often they become even more closely involved, by becoming our eyes and ears. For example, we count among our users eyewitnesses to the Camden fire, Pakistani lawyers suffering under Musharraf's crackdown, and ordinary Zimbabweans who tell us they're being cheated of their democratic voice.
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