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Mike Mullane
May 15, 2013
Jørn Jensen is best known outside his native Norway as President of the WorlDMB Forum, but he also works for the Norwegian public service broadcaster, NRK, whom he joined in 1986 after a 10 year career as a musician. Jorn initially...
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Posted by
Vittorio Argento
May 13, 2013
"Nihil sub sole novi," is Latin for "There is nothing new under the sun." RAI's early morning current affairs show 'Prima di tutto' (in English, 'First of all') is not a revolution in radio broadcasting because I don’t think it’s...
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Posted by
Werner Bleisteiner
May 02, 2013
A heated discussion has broken out in Germany after Telekom announced that starting in May new DSL contracts will contain speed limits. If new customers in the slowest category "up to 16Mbit/s" reach a maximum of 75 GB transfer volume, they...
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Posted by
Christian Gillinger
Apr 30, 2013
Swedish Radio has identified 12 editorial priorities. The first of them, which is about using social media and interactivity, reads: "Develop Journalism 3.0 and the relationship with the audiences. Social media is here to help us strengthen...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Apr 29, 2013
Eurovision Media Strategy has taken part in a prestigious media event in Perugia at the kind invitation of the Italian city’s international journalism festival. I was privileged to chair a panel discussion between Eurovision’s Nicoletta
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Nicoletta Iacobacci
Apr 29, 2013
Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer, essayist, music critic, director and performer. His books have been translated into a wide number of languages and few weeks ago Claudio Cappon, former RAI’s director general and EBU vice...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Apr 24, 2013
Amazon has announced that it will use the power of the crowd to decide which of 14 pilot TV shows will be made into full series. Viewers will be asked to express their preferences on the Amazon.com and Lovefilm websites. It is the latest...
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Posted by
Jere Nurminen
Apr 18, 2013
Jere Nurminen is a YLE Sports producer Losing expensive sports rights can sometimes kindle new opportunities. YLE experienced this in 2011 when the company lost the Ice Hockey World Championship rights to the commercial company,
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Posted by
Claire Wardle
Apr 11, 2013
It’s 2013, and we’ve moved past the point where broadcasters need to be convinced that they should have a presence on social media. However, we now have another problem, broadcasters with many different accounts on many different...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Apr 09, 2013
How do you maintain and build trust in your journalism? That was the question put to the EBU Vision 2020 Project Manager, Ruurd Bierman, Swedish Radio’s Director-General Cilla Benkö, and the Assistant Editor of the BBC News UGC and...
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Posted by
Tiziano Bonini
Mar 27, 2013
Tiziano Bonini is an award winning writer and producer who has worked for public service radio in Italy and Switzerland. He is currently Head of Radio Studies at the IULM University in Milan. I would like to introduce myself by sharing ...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Mar 22, 2013
Mark Rock is the founder of Audioboo.fm, the social way to share your voice, narratives, stories and news. His previous startup, PlayJam, was an interactive TV games Channel on Sky, cable, TPS, Canal+ in France and EchoStar in the US. It was...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Mar 15, 2013
The media landscape is undergoing major and profound changes as opportunities increase not only for creating and distributing programmes, but also for content-makers to interact with listeners, readers and viewers. How will the changes affect...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Mar 14, 2013
Joan Warner is the Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Radio Australia which represents 99 per cent of all commercial radio broadcasters in Australia. Ms. Warner was responsible for the planning, rollout and implementation of DAB+ digital...
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Posted by
Gerard Van Den Broek
Feb 27, 2013
Gerard van den Broek is Foreign Editor and Project Leader of Video First at the Dutch public service broadcaster NOS. NOS News is in the middle of transforming itself into a more online newsroom. Since last year, when we launched an...
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Posted by
Davide Moro
Feb 22, 2013
The writer is a journalist, manager and broadcasting consultant based in Italy. I was never that interested in mobile apps until I noticed an old fashioned Phd Engineer, who I had thought was immune to digital modernity, accessing his...
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Charlie BECKETT
Feb 17, 2013
Professor Charlie Beckett is the director of Polis. He is a former journalist with the BBC and ITN’s Channel 4 News. He is currently working with the EBU on the Vision 2020 project. At a time when media people across Europe are...
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Posted by
Sam Dubberley
Feb 15, 2013
“We need to get the pictures out to the Members now”. That’s the second thought that goes through the Eurovision News Exchange newsdesk’s collective heads when a breaking news story – such as February’s shock
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Feb 11, 2013
Mark Little is an Irish journalist, television presenter, author and founder of the social media start-up, Storyful. He presented Prime Time for RTÉ until December 2009, when he took a year of leave of absence to pursue a project centred...
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Mike Mullane
Feb 01, 2013
Solana Larsen is the managing editor of Global Voices Online, an internationally renowned community of bloggers and digital activists who report on online citizen media and free speech around the world, with translations in more than 20 languages....
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Jan 25, 2013
Ruurd Bierman is heading an ambitious project at the EBU to explore the likely impact of technology, society and politics on public service media over the next decade. Here Ruurd interviews the chairman of the Dutch public service broadcasting...
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Posted by
Annika Nyberg
Jan 16, 2013
For the fourth time the website Journalism. co.uk has published a list of the 10 things every journalist should know: The first list was published in 2009, then in 2010, 2012 and the last one this year. We all know that it is quite interesting...
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Posted by
Gerard Van Den Broek
Jan 11, 2013
I am the project manager of Video First for NOS News in the Netherlands. But what exactly is that? Every news broadcaster in the world fights for his existence, struggling with budget cuts, political headwinds, and distrust from audiences....
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Jan 08, 2013
Guido Baumhauer has been Deutsche Welle’s Director of Strategy, Marketing and Distribution since 2006, and is recognised as one of the world's top experts on broadband and pay TV. Guido began his career as a newspaper and TV reporter...
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Posted by
Amelie Rossignol
Jan 07, 2013
If you are interested in digital storytelling or web design and still haven't seen the New York Times' "Snow Fall" feature, you're missing something awesome… so better late than never! "Snow Fall" pushes the boundaries on how to tell...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Dec 21, 2012
We hope you enjoy our seasonal selection of articles about media and journalism from EBUZZ. Media 2020 Awaken the cyborg in youBroadcasting and binaural soundTransmedia arrives at the BAFTA!The hacker way: A beta strategy for broadcastersHow...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Dec 19, 2012
Steve Pratt is the Director of Digital Music for CBC, including CBC Music, the home of music at Canada's public broadcaster. CBC Music is designed for Canadian music fans, offering a choice of 50 free web radio stations, 12 genre-based online
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Dec 17, 2012
The internet is changing society and human behaviour in fundamental ways. Even the English language is not immune from the effects of online culture. In media, the internet has transformed not only the way that we distribute content,...
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Posted by
Nicoletta Iacobacci
Dec 13, 2012
Last week I was invited to be one of the jurors at Pitch Up! at BAFTA, a crossmedia/transmedia pitching session taking place in the home of the famous British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), an organization which supports, promotes...
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Nicoletta Iacobacci
Dec 11, 2012
A few months ago, at TED Global, I met my first cyborg, Neil Harbisson. Born in Northern Ireland and raised in Catalonia, Neil is a contemporary artist, composer, and cyborg activist who is best known for his self-extended capacity to perceive...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Dec 10, 2012
Ben Hammersley is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine, a broadcaster on BBC radio, author of 5 books, the latest of which, 64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then is published internationally in hardback. He is innovator-in-residence at...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Dec 04, 2012
Cilla Benkö is Director General of Swedish Radio and a member of the EBU's Executive Board. She took up her appointment as Director General in October 2012, after sharing the responsibility of running one of the EBU's most dynamic and innovative
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 30, 2012
In 1992, Bruce Springsteen complained about 57 channels and nothin' on. Twenty years later, there are nearly 700 channels in the UK alone, but according to research by Red Bee Media, 41 per cent of British viewers still grumble that there...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 26, 2012
Anthony Edgar started his media career in newspapers with News Limited, Australia, in 1984 and went on to work with numerous lifestyle, sport and youth magazines, including Playboy, Marketing Magazine, Tracks, Waves and Volleyball Magazine....
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 23, 2012
Welcome to our fourth selection of thought-provoking articles about media and journalism. If you are a community member and logged in, please remember to use the comments field to suggest links for further reading. You can also browse...
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Posted by
Matthew Trustram
Nov 22, 2012
As anyone who's ever been stalked by a lion will tell you, the human sense of hearing has a rather remarkable ability to accurately locate the sound of a snapped twig or a paw trampling dried leaves. For those of us lucky enough never...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 21, 2012
I am not sure if the Jesuits ever really said, "Give me the child for his first seven years, and I’ll give you the man," but the premise is a simple one - catch them young. The same thinking is behind Swedish Radio's Blue Monkey...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 19, 2012
Charlie Beckett is the founding director of Polis, the London School of Economics' international journalism think-tank. He is also Head of the Department of Media and Communications. Before joining Polis, Charlie was an award-winning...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 16, 2012
Welcome to our third weekly selection of thought-provoking articles about media and journalism. If you are a community member and logged in, please remember to use the comments field to suggest links for further reading. You can also...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 14, 2012
In a legendary essay marking the centenary of the Manchester Guardian, the British editor and publisher, C. P. Scott, argued that accurate news reporting was the "primary office" of journalism. Ninety years later, "Comment is free, but facts...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 13, 2012
When I was asked to edit EBUZZ, the EBU's new blog about future journalism and the intersection between content and technology, I found my mind drifting back several years to a river cruise in Stockholm. I had spent the evening admiring...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 12, 2012
There is a strange kind of circularity to life. When I joined the EBU, nearly nine years ago, the BBC was in the midst of an editorial crisis that was every bit as serious as the controversy currently engulfing the corporation. ...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 09, 2012
Here is our second must-read selection of articles about media and journalism that you may have missed. If you are a community member and logged in, please use the comments field to suggest links for further reading. You can also browse...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 07, 2012
I have tried to condense into a short post some of the key lessons I have learned about social media in conferences, conversations and other exchanges with broadcasters, trainers and strategists over the past year. Of course, you will also find...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 05, 2012
ORF correspondent Nadja Hahn has spent the last month at Polis, the journalism think-tank of the London School of Economics, researching the value of social media for public service journalism. The EBU and Polis will publish her report. ...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Nov 02, 2012
Each week, E-BUZZ will suggest a reading list of thought-provoking articles about media and journalism that you may have missed. If you are logged in, please use the comments field to suggest links for further reading. You may also browse...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Oct 31, 2012
Giorgio Vasari narrates, in his 'Lives of the Artists', that when Giotto was a young apprentice, he one day painted such a lifelike fly that his master, Cimabue, tried several times to brush it off the canvas. Seven hundred years later, a Dutch...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Oct 29, 2012
If you were to draw up mission statements for TEDxTransmedia and Multimedia Meets Radio they might look very similar. Both events aim to inspire and stimulate a conversation about the future of media, although they rise to the challenge in very...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Oct 26, 2012
During a recent trip to Rome for TEDxTransmedia I was privileged to meet and listen to Poonacha Machaiah, the CEO of a new social network for storytelling called Qyuki. One of Poonacha’s key messages was that you have to be flexible in...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Oct 23, 2012
The American blogger, Dan Gillmor, neatly summarizes the value of crowdsourcing in his much quoted aphorism that "my readers know more than I do". Crowdsourcing is a valuable tool for journalists that allows them to use their audiences...
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Posted by
Annika Nyberg
Oct 22, 2012
Nearly every conference and meeting I have attended this fall has touched upon social media, one way or the other. While talking about news the question is mostly about validation and verification. How do we make sure that the stories...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Oct 19, 2012
More than 100 delegates have attended two key meetings about the future of radio in the past few weeks. Multimedia Meets Radio took place in Turin, in September, and was followed by the Digital Radio Conference earlier this month. The...
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Posted by
Mike Mullane
Oct 16, 2012
Nadja Hahn, a business correspondent for ORF Radio, is the EBU's first Journalism Research Fellow at Polis, the journalism think tank of the London School of Economics. She is researching the public service value of social media. Below...
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