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Social media's impact on football reporting
Football fans can scarcely have failed to notice the anaemic newspaper coverage of matches and lack of photographs from this season's early football league games. It's not that there's been a sudden loss of interest - far from it. What's been hampering the coverage is a lack of access. A disp...
Citizen Journalism Guide
The BBC's Director of Global News, Richard Sambrook, introduces the BBC's upcoming guide to Citizen Journalism. The coverage of the London bombs was a turning point for BBC News. It was one of the first major news events where technology - like a mobile phone - meant the public could not only ...
Souvenir from Fiji: How to report from a new parliament
Former BBC correspondent Tim Fenton has been training parliamentary reporters in Fiji ahead of the country’s elections in September
Kabul blast that killed Tolo TV staff was a tragedy too close to home
Former Tolo TV journalist Najiba Feroz learned on Twitter of the Taliban suicide bombing that killed seven of her ex-colleagues and raised the threat to media freedom in Afghanistan.
In Mali the battle is to cover an ‘invisible’ war
It felt, from the first, like an invisible war. We were told the French had carried out new air strikes here and there. But we were stuck with just military sources.
Top five alternative pronunciation bugbears in English
English is a language where a word can be acceptably pronounced in more than one way, so it is understandable that alternative pronunciations can provoke strong opinions.
Perils of live radio: Could you fill eight minutes of airtime?
On Saturday 4 January I probably had the longest breakdown I have had to deal with across my time as an announcer for both radio and television.
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My 9/11: In an international crisis, a local station is a trusted friend to its audience
It was 2.15pm in Leicester and 9.15am in New York as I came in for my late newsreading shift. I'd heard the bulletin as I drove to BBC Radio Leicester. All that was known was that an aircraft had flown into a skyscraper in New York. A colleague who'd read the 2pm news handed over to me. T...
François Hollande’s media: from honeymoon to divorce in four months
For the past few weeks the newly elected French president Francois Hollande can have had no doubt that his media honeymoon is well and truly over.
Grooming trial: ‘I’ve lived and breathed this case, in court and out’
In the second of two blogs by BBC journalists who covered the traumatic Oxford grooming trial, Alex Forsyth of BBC South describes how the experience affected her.
Women scientists: don’t put them on air unless they’re the best
There is an industry consensus that there are too few women experts appearing as contributors to broadcast programmes.
#Paris: UGC expertise can no longer be a niche newsroom skill
We were as reliant on eyewitnesses when the Boxing Day tsunami hit in 2004 as we were during the Nepal earthquake earlier this year, and in Paris this week.
Online abuse is a danger for many female journalists
The abuse faced by Caroline Criado Perez became a huge talking point over the summer of 2013. She was the campaigner who had founded The Women’s Room and led a highly successful social media campaign to have a woman represented on UK bank notes.
Live-streaming the Ferguson protests: We had to give Meerkat a try
From the outset we decided we wanted to cover the expected protests in Ferguson with a live-stream. The only question was how? Which service should we choose?
Picture dilemma?
Just before 8am, a light plane carrying the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage crashed at an airfield in Northamptonshire. Mr Farage was injured and taken to hospital. Footage of the plane wreckage was used on news outlets - but at around 11.45am a still image of Mr Farage, unconscious and stil...
How to research science topics
Researching science can be daunting as it is a specialised field with a fair amount of terminology to get your head around. Understanding some of the online tools available is a vital first step.
Mobile and social countering dip in Newsbeat radio listeners
About 18 months ago I got a call from Radio 1. They wanted to know what the future of news is, for their audience. No big deal then.
