Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2010
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Who do you trust?
The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4, 27 October) focused on WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of secret documents detailing a catalogue of torture, friendly fire deaths and casual killings in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The website's spokesman, Kristin Hraffnson, was cross-examined by a p...
Video: World Service Trust - Lifeline Programming
Mike Wooldridge, the BBC World Affairs correspondent, chaired a lunchtime session looking at the work of teams producing Lifeline programmes for the BBC World Service Trust. The event focused on examples from the recent disasters in Haiti, Burma and Pakistan.
President Pinera: masterful management of media and miners
It was a live global media event - the biggest since 9/11, nearly a decade earlier: 33 miners rescued from the San Jose mine on 12 October. Billions watched, but one man media-managed it all and came out smelling of roses: President Sebastian Pinera of Chile. And he followed his triumph with ...
Video guide to the US mid-terms
Covering the US mid-term elections usually gets BBC editors in trouble with their audiences. 'It's a US story ...' or 'it's nothing to do with us ...' or 'you focus too much on America and not enough on Europe ...' US Mid-Terms Briefing Justin Webb talks about some of the big stories and...
i
Editor Simon Kelner obviously did his research ahead of the launch of the Independent's new newspaper, i, today. "The perfect way to start your day," he writes in his welcome on page three, "and at a much more affordable price than a cappuccino." Kelner must have seen me coming, I think to my...
What's the point of i?
This morning I did something I've not done for a very long time: I bought a national newspaper. Not any old national newspaper, but a brand spanking new one called i. I'd seen it trailed in last night's Evening Standard and heard an item about it on BBC Radio 4's Today programme before I le...
Event: Face the Future
Wednesday 24 November 2010, Coventry University, Coventry. Face the Future: Tools for the Modern Media Age Journalism guru Jeff Jarvis of CUNY, Paul Bradshaw of City University, Marc Reeves of the Birmingham Business Post, Julian March of Sky News, Steve Herrmann, Editor BBC News Online, and...
Event: news:rewired
Thursday 16 December 2010, Microsoft UK headquarters, London. Journalism.co.uk and the BBC College of Journalism's latest news:rewired event - Beyond the Story - will offer practical advice from experts in journalism and digital publishing. The day-long event will look at the processes and ...
Event: Reframing Libel
This day-long symposium will see lawyers and journalists discuss various ways in which libel law could be 'reframed'. The event is chaired by Lord Anthony Lester, who recently introduced the Defamation Bill in the House of Lords. Sessions will examine issues such as the cost, length o...
Teaching journalism - like catching blancmange?
It is now a fortnight since Week Zero in the journalism department of Coventry University - two weeks since the 50-plus on our courses arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and full of expectation of a life of hackery ahead. Nearly 8,000 others arrived at universities with journalism somewhere in...
