sarah beck is the director of bbc monitoring. welcome to newswatch. day of the cold war, the role was focused on broadcasting, how different will it be now in the age of social media? it is already different, to be honest. with digital media and the explosion of what is happening has been a part of our work for some time. if you look at how we are working into the future, we need to be even more able to follow that huge range of sources. if we the monitors cannot keep up with the media we are following, we are in trouble. that keeping up with the changes, keeping across which sources are relevant, which sources you need to listen to, whereas which ones are less influential... how do you do that? i would like to bust the myth of a pair of headphones tuning into a crackly radio station. our monitors are very fluent in the digital media they are following. they might be following four or five broadcast screens at the same time as looking at tweets and threads across a range of sources. it is a very fluid, fastjob now. at the same time as i am talking abo