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Granada Reports’ Oscar scoop |
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 |
Granada Reports’ entertainment reporter, Caroline Hacking, got an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle in Hollywood.
*** A note of warning to readers in the PR industry, this article contains a journalist using initiative. ***
 Too many smutty jokes...
However, Hacking tracked the Lancashire director down to his hotel in LA, only to find him watching the Manchester United game. He agreed to do a 15 minute interview at full time.
"Caroline had made a joke on air, saying you should get my boss to send me to Hollywood to cover the Oscars," said head of news, Richard Frediani.
"We got a few emails in, had a think about it, costed it and off she went. It’s paid us back several times over, she did a great job."
She went out for a week, sending back 6 days’ of material and interviewed Boyle a second time, after the ceremony at a low-key party.
"We’ve had a really good reaction to it and we were told by his [Boyle’s] twin sister and dad that they were glued to Granada Reports because we were featuring him." Something to add? Then leave a comment below or email us now.
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