Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2013
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Lost Letters from America join 12 of Cooke’s best, selected by Alvin Hall
When Radio 4 launched an appeal last year for lost Letter from America recordings by legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke, no one dreamed it would turn up more than 600 missing programmes.
Iranian journalists face growing threat of imprisonment in pre-election crackdown
As Iran gears up for presidential elections on 14 June, the threats faced by Iranian journalists once again make depressing reading. About 50 reporters currently jailed.
Searching social media? Don’t miss what’s hiding in plain sight
Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networks have advanced search facilities and they can be extremely useful newsgathering tools.
Broadcasting hub in a tower block was Olympian feat of engineering
The 2012 London Olympics brought the challenge of broadcasting live to a different level - more precisely to the top floors of a 1960s block of flats in East London.
My first Twitter adrenaline rush – and glad you liked the jacket
It was with some trepidation that I prepared for my first question and answer session on Twitter. What would people ask? Would anyone ask anything at all?
If hackers strike, don’t be a phish out of water
On Thursday the BBC found itself a victim of Twitter hacking when a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hijacked a number of official Twitter accounts.
Access all archives: news media management is a select occupation
NewsI am one of a new breed of news archivists, the news media managers, who work in newsrooms alongside journalists, managing the media used to produce BBC .
Military and media: ‘a deal with the devil, but more professional since Iraq'
Since 2003, it has become easier for those of us covering military action to check, double-check and cross-check what is happening, thanks to the web and mobile communications.
Embedded in Iraq: ‘a tool in the military tool box, willingly or not’
It is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since we stood nervously by our vehicles on the Iraq border with Kuwait, scarves over our faces to protect us from the vicious sandstorm that whipped up in the region that long March day, waiting for our war to start.
Don’t mourn Google Reader, discover a new favourite feed
If you have ever had any social media training, you may well have got used to a free Google tool called Google Reader as a way of tracking the websites you need to visit regularly.
