Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2016
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What makes a great radio voice? After Radio Times poll, experts have their say
Experienced voice coaches Kate Lee and Elspeth Morrison give their take on this week’s Radio Times readers’ poll of favourite radio voices and offer tips on sounding your best on air.
Lyse Doucet: ‘Look for the light in the dark’ to make sense of hard news
Earlier this month Lyse Doucet helped judge a competition to find the most inspirational stories featured by the BBC World Service programme Outlook. Extraordinary human experience helps audiences better understand complex world events, she believes.
The women who run the Falklands’ media
In her latest post from the Falklands, Federica De Caria talks to three key editorial figures in the islands’ media about their somewhat accidental career paths and what it takes to run a newspaper, radio and TV station in the South Atlantic.
Diary of a ‘mojo diet’ part two: Introducing 'pocket-to-pocket journalism’
Dougal Shaw has been filming with his smartphone instead of his normal camera for one month - a challenge he’s calling a #mojodiet. Here is the second instalment of his diary chronicling the experience.
Live-streaming US shootings: Reminder of dangers to ‘objective journalism’
Dramatic live-streamed footage of last week’s US shootings and their aftermath has again asked questions about the exponential growth of this kind of eyewitness media, says Mark Frankel.
Public data can be as revealing as private data
A review of Dataclysm by Christian Rudder.
Creative teams draw their own conclusions on power of digital graphics
The BBC’s Visual Journalism unit and the BBC Chinese Service have been experimenting with digital graphics to tell stories in new ways, with interesting results.
James Naughtie: Trump, Brexit and life after Today
Former Today programme presenter James Naughtie reflects on politics in the UK and the USA and his new life as special correspondent for Radio 4.
Student animators get creative with one-minute World Service stories
BBC World Service challenged student animators in Bristol to create 60-second films inspired by a range of international radio stories. The result was a creative explosion, as Emily Kasriel explains.
Telling Roald Dahl’s story in a radio drama (with 64 characters) was a labour of love
What better way to commemorate a born storyteller than by telling his own fascinating story? That was my opening gambit to BBC Radio 4 as I asked them to commission dramatisations of Roald Dahl’s memoirs to celebrate this centenary year of his birth.
