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

Putting the words Twitter and journalism into the same sentence seems to provoke a spasm from professional journalists. At a “curated unconference” hosted by Reuters Thomson in London, the value of Twitter in journalism was once again under scrutiny. The report in The Guardian suggests there was a deep-seated level of unease in talking about Twitter as journalism. The head of the BBC’s global news division, Richard Sambrook, argued: Twitter

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