{"id":464,"date":"2025-11-12T19:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/?p=464"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:41:34","slug":"michael-macmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/2025\/11\/12\/michael-macmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael MacMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:51% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-19.19.35.png?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-466 size-full\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Michael MacMillan describes his career history at UTV, how he worked throughout different news organisations, such as RTE, BBCNI, UTV and ITN, &nbsp;emerged into politics at 24, and had to deliver the news of the death of Bobby Sands and witnessing firsthand the impact had on West Belfast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also discusses the changing technology of the industry and laments about the inconveniences during his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b917ce69-680d-4e5d-92f9-b6d5d3b99964\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/11\/Michael-Macmillan-Transcript.docx\">Michael Macmillan Transcript<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/11\/Michael-Macmillan-Transcript.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b917ce69-680d-4e5d-92f9-b6d5d3b99964\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:63px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael MacMillan Interview - Media Voices NI\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f0cKZ_ZdYgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-utv70","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mediavoicesni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}