Authors
Mark Tully: Too much detail for London; too simplistic for India
The normal role of the foreign correspondent is to live-abroad and report on events for the audience at home. Mark Tully, as BBC bureau chief in India, found himself catering for a much larger audience than the one in Britain. His reports for home were also broadcast on the BBC World Service to ...
Investigative journalism: No-one said it was easy
The BBC in Belfast has just hosted a one-day event exploring different aspects of investigative journalism to celebrate 40 years of BBC Northern Ireland’s Spotlight programme.
Preparing to be hung
The Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell (below), has confirmed that he is drawing up guidelines for senior civil servants and the parties in case the next election produces a hung parliament with no clear winner, an outcome more and more polls, politicians and pundits are predicting. Spe...
The reporting of Hillsborough: unfinished business
The programme schedules were thrown into the bin and staff and listeners descended on the radio station as they heard the news. What had started as a football match turned into a major international news story.
Video: Local Elections and Mayoral Referendums
BBC political correspondent Mike Sergeant told journalists at a CoJo Wednesday lunchtime session that there is potentially a big change coming to the way local government operates in England. As ten of the country's biggest cities are voting to decide whether they want to elect their own mayo...
Stop the killing of Somali journalists
September was the deadliest ever month for Somali journalists: seven were killed in 11 days, all in the capital. This year Somalia will record its highest media death toll: 15 journalists have already been killed since January.
