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How I got Heathrow shots from my mobile on to the Ten, thanks to iPhone training
Ed Campbell used the BBC's iPhone app for newsgathering at Heathrow to feed shots back for the evening news
Comedy writers: Abandon your Sunday lunch
What makes good comedy writing? A BBC Comedy executive producer gives some tips ahead of a BBC workshop in Glasgow.
BBC plan for local reporting might damage local groups, says news executive
The BBC wants to invest in local news reporting. But would this disadvantage news groups that still invest in covering the stories the BBC wants to cover, asks a regional news executive?
BBC News from Elsewhere: A global search for oddball insights
Watching the world's media involves covering the latest terrorist attack or corruption scandal, but also spotting stories like the Icelandic brewery that makes whale testicle beer.
Thatcher’s death - how Twitter democratised reaction
For once this was not a news story that broke first on Twitter. It was a traditional news source, the Press Association, which flashed the breaking news line at 12.47pm.
Italian coverage of ‘migrant crisis’ marred by negative language
Coverage of the new waves of people arriving into Italy, by sea or via the Balkan route, has exposed a lack of preparation by much of the country’s media.
How citizen journalists on mobiles are ‘democratising’ news in central India
The CGNet Swara platform is a dialogue model of communication, like Facebook or an email discussion forum for poor people. It creates a bottom-up model of newsgathering.
Inconvenient truths
Jack Straw's comments that some UK Pakistani men see white girls as "easy meat" for sex abuse has really set the debate over what is taboo and what isn't alight. Two of his Labour colleagues have rounded on him for "stereotyping" an entire community. The former Home Secretary has urged the Pa...
The deficit, debt and borrowing: An economic jargon buster
The discussion around public sector finances is riddled with jargon. Here’s a short guide to understanding some of the most familiar terms.
Cyber-attack on BBC: need for caution in assigning blame
The BBC has reportedly revealed that it suffered a "sophisticated cyber-attack" following a campaign of persistent intimidation from the Iranian authorities. Mark Thompson, the BBC's director-general, is due to give a speech at the Royal Television Society later today, describing how, alongsi...
How BBC Radio Leicester uncovered Richard III
It was the burial story that even a simultaneous Chris Huhne guilty plea could not bury. And even more certain than the identity of the king under the car park, is that this story will run and run.
#bbcsms: The journalism matrix - redefining what we do for a living
The multidimensionality of news sources and outputs is overwhelming. The daily bombardment of podcasts, tweets, blogs, clouds, apps, tags and tings, even to a hardened hack like me, is pretty exhausting. And, no matter how indefatigable I am, the root problem still remains. Social media has er...
Bad weather, good reporting: ten tips on covering the snow
As the snow returns to parts of the UK this week, here are ten top tips on staying safe while getting the story, compiled for BBC News by Glasgow-based correspondent James Cook.
Nepal: Why are some disasters bigger stories than others?
It is not just how many people have to die to make it a big disaster for the media, but crucially how ‘important’ those deaths appear to be.
The challenge of covering the NHS reforms
This is a guest blog by Paul Corrigan, a specialist in health policy who was special adviser to two Labour secretaries of state for health, and then senior health policy adviser to prime minister Tony Blair. He was recently a speaker at a College of Journalism discussion on NHS reforms: Most c...
When one man spotted what all news media missed
On 15 February, the worst prison fire in a century consumed an overcrowded jail in Honduras killing 361 people.
Specialist journalism is the future - if you can see the wood for the trees
In the second of our posts on what it takes to be a specialist journalist, Sean Coughlan’s advice is to dodge the lobbyists and get out of the office, if you can.
Why you can’t sell local news and give it away at the same time
The conventional model for local news, to charge for a print edition while offering a free version online, does not make business sense. A new hyperlocal model delivers a print edition to all households for free.
Election explainers to make your campaign coverage go with a swing
In the second of his briefings on election terminology, David Cowling spells out what’s meant by the likes of ‘turnout’, ‘coalition’ and the slightly trickier ‘swing’.
News is more than just eyewitness and a mobile pic
I was in Camden on Saturday afternoon when I first started to read the rumours on Twitter that Amy Winehouse had died at her home. Being the inquisitive journalist, I easily found her address and by the time I'd arrived there were numerous police officers, snappers and large swathes of Camden ...
