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LBC could be the winner after Clegg's 'chipper, unexciting' debut
Glenn Kinsey
is a media interview, presentation skills and presenter coach and chief executive of the Pozitiv Group
Rather than Incredible Hulk, the recent irritable appearances by the Deputy Prime Minister have been more Incredible Sulk.
Our blog reunites a cameraman and his subject
Charles Miller
edits this blog. Twitter: @chblm
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...
Why I couldn't make a living from my successful hyperlocal site
Richard Jones
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...
Covering the Budget - and meeting the audience's needs
Steve Schifferes
is director of the financial journalism MA, and Marjorie Deane professor of financial journalism, at City University, London. Twitter: @saschiff
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
Sarah Gibson
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...
Social media's impact on football reporting
Gordon Farquhar
Football fans can scarcely have failed to notice the anaemic newspaper coverage of matches and lack of photographs from this season's early football league games. It's not that there's been a sudden loss of interest - far from it. What's been hampering the coverage is a lack of access. A disp...
Bob Woodward: how to report a story
Charles Miller
edits this blog. Twitter: @chblm
Bob Woodward, with Carl Bernstein, broke the story of Watergate nearly four decades ago. He still works as a journalist for the Washington Post. Interviewed for the Post's website, he talked about basic journalistic skills: One of the questions which persists in journalism is where do we get o...
'Churnalism': demonising PR is too simple
Fiona Fox
is chief executive of the Science Media Centre
What has 'churnalism' got to do with the phone hacking scandal? Plenty, according to Chris Atkins in his support for the motion "This house believes news articles based on press releases should be marked 'advertorial'" at a recent debate at the Royal Statistical Society. Atkins opened by claim...
How to get started as a freelance foreign correspondent
Graham Holliday
lives in Africa and is a foreign correspondent, photojournalist, lecturer and BBC journalism trainer. Twitter: @noodlepie
It's unavoidable. The first year or two of any freelance journalist's life abroad is spent pitching. But things have changed since I started out in the 1990s. Today's wannabe foreign correspondents have to pitch by day, blog by night, and tweet whenever and wherever a story breaks. Some do it all very well. And they find time to do the day job. Take a look at Iona Craig in Yemen and Rob Crilly in Pakistan. It's with these various changes in mind, and the need these days for independent journalists to have a brand, that I put together the presentation below for the Frontline Club discussion about going solo as a foreign correspondent. It's based upon the Kigaliwire blog I created when I moved to Rwanda in August 2009. I've never faced a bullet or worked in a conflict zone, but foreign correspondence is not all about danger. I hope this presentation gives wannabes some solid ideas about how to go about getting started. It's not all plain sailing and things will and do go wrong, but at least they will go interestingly wrong. Frontline Club - solo foreign correspondent View more documents from Graham Holliday. Graham Holliday (@noodlepie) is a foreign correspondent, photojournalist, university lecturer and BBC journalism trainer. He has worked on blogs, social media and citizen journalism projects since 2002.
#bbcsms: Don't write off the traditional media yet
Damian Radcliffe
is professor of journalism, Univ of Oregon @damianradcliffe
The recent BBC Social Media Summit gave a fascinating insight into how mainstream media organisations are dealing with the challenges of social media. But, lest we forget, Facebook only launched in 2004, and Twitter in 2006. And both took a few years until they became relatively popular even ...
