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Alright, so who are you? Hello, I'm Toby Granville. I'm the Editorial Development Director at Newsquest. Ohh, we need to be very quiet. They look like they're doing a quick run through. It looks like. Ohh, and look at that, another victim. Ohh, just in time. Hey, behind the scenes you're, you're such an important lecture to everyone here. Ohh, I was called in because Adrian needed me to help with things. Hello beat you. Welcome to quite an eventful day. Today we have Newsquest Media Group here to answer some of your questions. So we're here behind the scenes to get a closer look at what's going on. Do you guys ever done something so long? No, no. Never remember your first 15 minutes. So yeah. Are you excited about this experience? I am. I am pretty nervous, but once I start, I'll be fine. What are you guys hoping to get out of this event? Hoping to show That would be quite nice. It's it feels a little bit hectic for a minute, but it always does when we come up to being live. So hopefully we're gonna get everybody in place, everyone miked up and then everyone will enjoy. We've got an audience as well, which is quite exciting. Today I'm here to make sure that things are working. Do you think the year twos are up to the task? Yes. Ohh, yeah, definitely. I taught them last year, of course. So if it fails, it's your fault. It's Adrian's fault. Anyone who works with us in here knows that we bicker like mad, but we're better. I was the best man at his wedding. And in this case, he is absolutely right. This one this afternoon's the job on you is on the. Yeah, but of course it isn't, because as soon as everything's working, I hand over to. Mayor is our production manager this afternoon. She has got the crew together. Realism side, you guys had an e-mail out, you voluntary volunteered your time and come over. So AI is something that we have to deal with. We can't just ignore it. And what Newsquest is doing is brilliant. Actually. It's not, you know, like it's not letting that worry that ROI is going to take our jobs. And instead of worrying about that, we're just utilizing it. And I hope that students understand how they could use AI. That's why as an industry and for students like yourselves to be coming here and training to be journalists is absolutely crucial to our industry. And our industry continues because we need to be able to dispel the misinformation and disinformation that appears all over social media that people are believing.