Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2013
Posts (17)
Ten storytelling tips for journalists and producers from Thinking, Fast and Slow
The best-seller Thinking, Fast and Slow is an account of a field of psychology which uses experiments to understand our thinking processes, and in particular to highlight their limitations.
BBC output must keep pace with audiences’ fast-changing lives
When you walk into a Nigerian village on the Muslim-Christian border or a troublespot in Kenya, or when you go to Bolivia and you’re knocking on the door of the presidential palace, the letters BBC mean much more than they do here in London.
Damian McBride’s willing accomplices in the press escape scrutiny
Many political journalists were complicit with the ex-spin doctor Damian McBride, helping to propagate his smear stories about the ministerial colleagues and opponents of the former chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown.
How 'You' have changed the BBC’s journalism
The Media Guardian’s recent top 100 list of the most powerful figures in media had an unusual new entry which claimed top spot: You.
I have seen the future - in a little square above my right eye
A group of BBC journalists and technologists were being shown Google Glass by Bob Schukai, global head of mobile technology at Thomson Reuters.
Lost in translation? What exactly does Russia mean by an ‘act of provocation’ in Syria?
UK audiences have being hearing about how Russia thinks the chemical attack inflicted on a suburb of Damascus on 21 August was an act of provocation. But might difficulties over the translation of a tricky Russian term be causing some listeners or viewers to misconstrue what Moscow has in mind?
BBC journalists debate the use of disturbing footage in the news
How much can audiences take when shown disturbing footage in the news? Is the BBC too robust or too timid in its use of graphic or disturbing footage, or does it get the balance right?
Hi-tech burger provides perfect media diet
Not only did the launch event for the first lab-meat beef burger last month get worldwide attention, it got plenty of publicity before it happened and then acres of analysis afterwards.
Hyperlocal media: A small but growing part of the local media ecosystem
Supported by new funding and training initiatives, interest from academics and policy-makers, as well as the increased take up of internet-enabled mobile devices, hyperlocal media have enjoyed a step-change in activity and interest in the past 18 months.
Glitchy, intimidating, complex: Apple's changes to audio in iOS 7 - continued
The native audio app which has long been very simple to use has changed dramatically and not in a good way. It is less intuitive, glitchy and intimidating, while it remains limited in scope.
