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Italian public service broadcasting…
Tonight I’ll be at the Italian Cultural Institute talking about the European media with Andy Ward of Endemol and Angelo Maria Petroni of RAI. Petroni is an interesting character. He’s a conservative sociology professor who was affiliated with Silvio Berlusconi. He was appointed to the board of Italy’s public service broadcaster, RAI, in 2003 by…
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An evening with a TV news legend
Nick Owen interviewed Stewart Purvis last night, with Stewart talking through some of his favourite pieces from a career that spans over thirty years in journalism. It isn’t putting it too strongly to say that Purvis is the single most influential British TV journalist of that time (not that he’s in pipe and slippers –…
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A scene from home…
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Twitter as a news resource…
Jeff Jarvis writes on the newsgathering potential of Twitter, and I see a problem: Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services – Flickr, YouTube, Facebook – for news catchwords such as…