Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2012
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How social media enriches broadcasting: a Northern Ireland perspective
Have you ever thought what it must be like for someone who wants to ring a newsroom? It's bound to be a daunting task. What's the number? Who do I ask for? That's all changing thanks to social media. The BBC Newsline social media project began about a year ago. We didn't want to get left beh...
UN plan to protect journalists opens rifts between nations
Two years ago, after some NGOs and media organisations complained about evasion and delay, the United Nations started to focus on the task of improving the safety of journalists. And last week, the first UN plan for effective safeguards against targeted killings and attacks on journalists was pu...
#POLIS12 - International Journalism Conference
Reporting the World was the theme of the third annual international journalism conference held at the London School of Economics with the BBC College of Journalism, Polis and the European Broadcasting Union. The conference began with a powerful
BBC Journalism Fellowships 2012/13
We are looking for applicants from across the BBC Journalism divisions for two prestigious fellowships supported by the BBC: � The University of Michigan Fellowship � The Reuters Fellowship at Oxford University. These opportunities are open to all senior journalists across BBC Journali...
Journalist safety: getting away with murder?
In the month since Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in the Syrian city of Homs the question of how to protect journalists - and prosecute those who target them - has been taken up at a national and international level. At a Westminster Hall debate last week, the Liberal Democrat MP Do...
In search of the real news
This is a guest blog by the Rev. Art Lester, minister at Croydon Unitarian and Free Christian Church, and a former journalist. Every morning I log onto Google News to see what's happening. I steal a quick glance at my wife Gilly's Guardian. The other day I realised I was just looking for ex...
Covering the Budget - and meeting the audience's needs
The Budget is one of the most important - and often one of the trickiest - events in the political calendar. Both an economic and political story, it can be a challenge to see a clear way through the mass of data and announcements. This Budget was particularly difficult to report because ther...
BBC Russian's new daily news programme - on Russian TV
This week has been quite an emotional one for the BBC Russian team. On Monday we went to air with the first of our new daily ten-minute television news bulletins on the Russian IPTV station Dozhd TV (which translates as TV Rain). The broadcast came nearly a year after Russian Service shortwave a...
Video: Understanding the Economy
Not surprisingly perhaps, there's been a huge shift in people's interest in the state of the economy. Far more people now say they are interested than was the case prior to the 2008 financial crisis, and far greater numbers say they follow news about the economy daily. But a very large minori...
Video: NHS Changes
Nick Seddon - 'nobody actually knows what privatisation means' "Most other countries think that the debate we're having here is really weird," Nick Seddon, deputy director of the independent think-tank Reform, told a College of Journalism lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 29 February. Talking ...
