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Chris Walton

is project editor in digital media at the BBC College of Journalism

Blog posts in total 3

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  1. McIlroy not the only winner at first digital and social Open

    At Hoylake, the R&A, which runs golf, made a world-first foray into digital, with the on-site BBC social media team fully integrated into a major outside broadcast event.

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  2. Social media training is getting results for the BBC

    BBC News and The Huffington Post are easily leading the way worldwide at "social distribution", according to Newswhip, an innovative start-up company that monitors which news stories are spreading fastest through the social web. It's clear that BBC News has come a long way in social media in t...

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  3. My 9/11: 'There were audible screams in the newsroom for perhaps the first and only time'

    I was sitting in the Breakfast Day Editor's chair munching a lunchtime sandwich at about 1.55pm on 11 September 2001, mulling over the prospects with the usual anxiety of how the hell I was going to fill three hours of telly the next morning from an unpromising news diary. The reporter Paul We...

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