
Malachi O'Doherty
Blog posts in total 3
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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 ...
My direct line to Benghazi
Last Saturday night I got a Facebook message from a writer living in the North of England. He gave me the number of a contact in Benghazi and asked me to make use of it to help get word out of Libya at the height of the violence, or to pass it on. I am a freelance journalist but not a workada...
Journalism and the Academy
Journalist and writer Malachi O'Doherty is the new BBC Louis MacNeice Writer in Residence at Queen's University, Belfast. This is his first blog post for the College of Journalism and it heralds a year of events in Northern Ireland examining key issues in journalism, broadcasting, writing and ac...