Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2011
Posts (46)
Event: Are we Booksellers or Broadcasters?
In the Art of the Interview season, top presenters, producers, interviewees and their representatives celebrate the form and share their tips on getting the best out of every interview. The relationship with publishers is symbiotic - but is it clear and transparent? And are the rules of en...
Judge not, that ye be not judged - unless you already have an RTS Award
Oscars? Who needs all the razzmatazz when we've got the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards. I was there ... on the judging side. Last week, 18 grateful recipients went away with a plastic trophy. Many did not. But just how do you get an RTS? First, it pays to have talent and ab...
The 'churnalism' detector - and the sting that shows it's needed
Not so long ago, wire copy was the bedrock of many a publication but newspapers never openly revealed their dependency on agency material. The intro was tweaked, the copy rejigged and the reporter's byline put at the top. The web exposed the lie when people were easily able to read multiple, ...
Sexual assault on journalist triggers ugly media reactions
On 11 February, the day Egypt's President Mubarak agreed to step down, a mob of about 200 people attacked a CBS television crew, separating Lara Logan, the network's chief foreign correspondent, from her colleagues. Logan was violently beaten and sexually assaulted until a group of women and ...
John Simpson: Don't ask me
BBC Radio 4's Six O'Clock News, Wednesday 23 February: Harriet Cass: "Our World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, who has met Gaddafi on a number of occasions, has this assessment of how durable the regime will prove to be." John Simpson: "How long Colonel Gaddafi can keep on going is anyone's...
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...
How social media gets information to Libyan population
With severe restrictions imposed on the media in Libya, the internet has emerged as an important window through which traditional media outlets, particularly pan-Arab TV channels, can provide coverage of the unrest. Libya does not allow foreign media to operate freely on its soil, which has ma...
Event: Hacks and Hackers - BBC Scotland
Friday 25 March, BBC Scotland Calling journalists, bloggers, programmers and designers in Scotland! ScraperWiki, BBC Scotland and the BBC College of Journalism are pleased to announce another 'Hacks and Hackers Day': in Glasgow. Web developers and designers will pair up with ...
Event: Too Much Transparency is Bad for Society
The BBC College of Journalism, the Media Standards Trust and the Science Training for Journalists Programme at the Royal Statistical Society will be holding a public debate on Thursday 3 March. The motion for the debate is: 'Too much transparency is bad for society.' Discussing the motion: ...
The view from the commercial side of radio street
In Coventry, commercial radio only fears the BBC Network giants Radio 1 and - more - Radio 2. BBC Local is considered no contest. Two commercial radio moguls - Phil Riley, CEO of Mercia FM/Orion, and Steve Orchard, CEO of Touch FM - shared a Coventry Conversation as 'The last men standing in ...
