The outgoing director of the BBC’s global news division, Richard Sambrook, looked back at a career in journalism spanning 30 years in a conversation at the Frontline Club with Vin Ray, of the BBC College of Journalism.

Sambrook is leaving the BBC to join PR company Edelman as “there’s not another job for me. I’ve run out of road”.

Among his key points:

The internet for breaking and daily news is going to be more important but where is the space on the web for current affairs and investigative journalism? I don’t really see it at the moment.

Here is the full video of the event:

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