We decided to do shorter pieces and more performances.

The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, ... In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.

We didn't want to show it was shorter, we wanted to show it was better.

If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.

Two really brilliant performances,

You are going to have officers with shorter fuses,