The BBC multimedia newsroom is going through a reshuffle, with new senior editorial appointments expected any day. The head of the newsroom, Peter Horrocks, may have unintentionally just announced those appointments on Twitter. In a tweet to Richard Sambrook, BBC director of global news, Peter said: Since the tweet was sent as a response, it would have been seen by anyone following Peter. But it is also visible to anyone

Image by garyturner via Flickr Comments by a senior BBC News executive at the Media Society event, ‘Broadsheet vs Broadband’ in London offer an insight into how the corporation views user-generated content. Pete Clifton, who has the unwieldy title of head of editorial development for multimedia journalism explained how UGC fit into the BBC’s newsgathering: It’s gathering in insights that the audience have that we can make sense of and

Image via WikipediaThis is something that I have addressed before, but it is too important to ignore – the issue of repurposing content for the web. The BBC has taken its first steps towards integrating its news departments, with TV and radio now working in a common newsroom. The online team will join them in June. As BBC head of newsroom Peter Horrocks admits, most journalists will continue to work

The BBC has upgraded its blogging software to be better able to handle the thousands of comments it receives on its array of official blogs, as BBC News blogs editor Giles Wilson explains: It’s often been frustrating to leave comments (and also frustrating to publish them) because of slow response times. Part of the problem was that we were asking too much of our software. So we thank those of