Since issuing news of Charles Saatchi's gift of the Saatchi Gallery to the nation, Colman Getty has been handling enquiries from newsdesks and art correspondents around the world.

On Friday 2 July every national broadsheet newspaper featured the news with a double page spread in the in The Independent and a full page 3 in The Times whose art critic, Richard Cork said:

"We can all take cheer from Saatchi's astonishing gift". He added: "Mr Saatchi's willingness to take risks and support the work of the young untried artists is especially valuable today when economic hardship hits anyone struggling to emerge and survive. His vision is exciting, much needed and capable of transforming all our ideas about what modern art might become".

Many of the newspapers carried pictures of some of the art that makes up the gift of 200 works that Saatchi has given including Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998 and Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tragic Anatomies, 1996.

But it was the broadcasters that got the early scoops on Thursday 1 July and Will Gompertz covered the story for a number of BBC TV and radio outlets. He was keen to interview Grayson Perry for the Ten o'clock News and in a classic demonstration of CG's close association with the culture scene across the board, a team member piped up that it was her event, The Samuel Johnson Book Prize, that Grayson Perry was attending that night.

So the Ten o'clock News crew caught up with Grayson Perry and Saatchi's story was the lead arts feature. Huw Edwards introduced it by quoting Jeremy Hunt, culture secretary who said of Saatchi: "His decision to gift these works to the nation is an act of incredible generosity".

Watch this space for news of how the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other international titles carry the story....

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