Blog posts by year and monthApril 2012
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Our blog reunites a cameraman and his subject
When Stuart Hughes wrote on this blog recently about about a reunion in Sarajevo of journalists who had covered the war in Bosnia 20 years ago, he thought it was just the media people who were picking up their old connections. But he's now had an email from cameraman Robbie Wright, whose vide...
#BBCscc12 - Connecting Communities Conference - Salford
Thursday 24 May 2012, MediaCityUK, Salford We've now opened registration for our Connecting Communities Conference on 24 May at the BBC's new headquarters at MediaCityUK in Salford. The idea is to provide a forum for debate and discussion about how mainstream media can engage with communiti...
Event: World Press Freedom Day 2012
Thursday 3 May 2012, Thomson Reuters, London Strasbourg: Journalists' Foe or Friend? The UK Press Freedom Network, with support from UNESCO, The Society of Editors and the BBC College of Journalism, is holding a public event to mark World Press Freedom Day. This year's event will look at ...
Video: Local Elections and Mayoral Referendums
BBC political correspondent Mike Sergeant told journalists at a CoJo Wednesday lunchtime session that there is potentially a big change coming to the way local government operates in England. As ten of the country's biggest cities are voting to decide whether they want to elect their own mayo...
How free will Russia's new public service TV channel be?
Outgoing Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has ordered the creation of a new public service television station to come on air on 1 January 2013. Unveiling plans for the channel on 17 April, he pledged it would be free of "excessive state influence". There are, though, grounds for doubting whe...
Journalism innovation award: last chance to enter
There's now just over a week before the closing date of the inaugural BBC College of Journalism innovation award for postgraduate journalism students. We've been very impressed by the standard of entries already received and look forward to seeing more over the next 10 days or so. What's been ...
How news consumption has changed from beats to a constant static
In 2007, Paul Bradshaw's A Model for the 21st Century Newsroom described how the old production line model for news was meeting a networked mode of operation - where anyone could take on editorial and distribution roles and journalists were no longer limited in the medium they could choose or th...
Why I couldn't make a living from my successful hyperlocal site
Richard Jones wrote previously on this blog about his experiences setting up his own hyperlocal service, Saddleworth News. Here he explains the strengths of hyperlocal coverage compared to conventional local media and why he ultimately decided he couldn't make a living from it. As a journalist...
Big news from small cameras
Once upon a time, if I had told you that a small camera available from most electrical stores would - in the right hands - provide the BBC's entire Global News division with regular, unique news video footage from around the world, you'd have been within your rights to look sceptical. But ...
