With Libya in the news, I thought I would share this piece I did for BBC News in 1995 about the Libyan economy. As the BBC correspondent in the region, I visited Libya twice and interviewed Gaddafi during one of these trips. It was, by far, the strangest interview I have ever done. We were on standby all day until the call came late in the evening that Gaddafi was
PDF 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
The Christian Science Monitor has produced a video to explain its mission now that it has abandoned a daily print product in favour of a shift to the web and a new print weekly. Print
It should come as no surprise that online journalists are more optimistic about the future of news than their counterparts in traditional media outlets. But this optimism is tempered with a healthy dose of concerns about where journalism is going, according to the survey (PDF) of select members of the Online News Association (ONA) produced by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The online professionals believe that
Robert Scoble streamed his keynote at last week’s Online News Association annual conference in DC live via a mobile phone. It was a powerful demonstration of the new tools of communication he talked about. [kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/6118/220081&embedId=49229411] Print
Guy Berger, head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, was awarded a $630,000 Knight News Challenge grant for the News is Coming project. As he explains, the aim is to have local news reports disseminated through cellphones to help connect an all-black township in South Africa with the white population living in the urban center. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.587296&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia
Image via WikipediaThe BBC‘s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy. In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer. So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a Freedom of Information request. As far as I can tell, this is the first
Anti-Facebook song to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, by Rebelvirals. (Via Richard Brennan’s Newjiffy) Print
Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner of Persuasive Games, on the challenges of making news games for the media. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1077336&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin) Print
I caught up with Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com during one of the lunch break at this weekend’s Online Journalism Symposium at Austin, Texas, to find out what was happening at the news website: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1069138&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95) Print