The head of the BBC multimedia newsroom, Peter Horrocks, has ‘fessed up to messing up on Twitter. Horrocks sent out a tweet on Wednesday to his BBC colleague Richard Sambrook, talking about two senior newsroom appointments. The message had been intended as a private, direct message. But instead it went out as a reply and was visible to all, causing in Horrock’s words “a bit of a flutter in the
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 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
In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network. The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service broadcasting because it was about encouraging people to get involved rather than sitting back and watching politics happen. In a farewell note, the
The head of the newly integrated BBC News operation, Peter Horrocks, offers an insight into his take on citizen journalism in a speech he gave at the the University of Leeds’ Institute of Communications Studies. Horrocks has published the text of the speech on the BBC Editors blog. He raises some key questions about the relationship between mainstream news organisations, such as the BBC, and user-generated content. He asks how