Category: Journalism

  • Martha Kearney is the new voice on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, or WATO as the BBC calls it in true public school style. Martha is married to my ex-boss, and she also happens to be one of the BBC’s great broadcasters, intelligent and empathetic. Good luck to her.

  • Peter Horrocks is taking on straw man Robin Aitken tonight. Oddly enough I can’t post comments on the BBC Editor’s blog (conspiracy? OK technical cock-up probably)…meanwhile some gossip from RTS night. I heard Mr H was scoring juries by the judge…in the words of John Lydon, anger is an energy. I admire it. Defeats shouldn’t…

  • Monocle 2

    Nice interview with Monocle‘s Tyler B by Reuter‘s Matt Cowans here.

  • Sound and vision online

    The Monocle website has an interesting stab at combining audio and stills here. Audio of writer Fiona Wilson discussing her piece runs over stills. Problem – it’s not as good as a piece from an equivalent audio offering like the BBC‘s From Our Own Correspondent, and crucially it doesn’t sell in the piece. After hearing…