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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – be part of BBC’s Newswatch

Judith Townend — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:00:10 +0000

Journalism students: Get yourselves on BBC’s Newswatch, which asks for media contributions and stories at this link, and also offers the opportunity to see behind the scenes of the programme. Tipster: Judith Townend.

To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.Similar Posts:

Newswatch: Q&A with Bill Kovach, founder of the Committee for Concerned Journalists

Judith Townend — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:24:32 +0000

Newswatch, the weekly Nigerian news magazine, has interviewed Bill Kovach, the former curator of the Nieman Journalism Foundation at Harvard University, and the founder of the Committee for Concerned Journalists, CCJ. Earlier in his career Kovach was chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, and executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Kovach answers questions about his (54 year long) career to date. Some of the best answers come near the end – on African news coverage, for example:

“[I] think the western world, I don’t know about the rest of the world, but the western world has always thought of Africa as something they had to interprete through their eyes and I always thought that was wrong.

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“One of the things I love about the Nieman programme is that back in the 1960s, the Nieman programme refused to take people from South Africa because South African authorities only wanted white. But Harvard told the South African government and owners of the press that whites would be taken only if every other year, we got a black South African. And so, we began to bring into the Nieman programme white South Africans. Every other year, and soon it was every year, more whites and blacks got their chances.”

Full Q&A at this link…Similar Posts:

Video: The role of blogging in the BBC

Laura Oliver — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:20:05 +0000

As the BBC makes some style changes to its blog format, deputy director of BBC News, Stephen Mitchell, discusses the role of blogs at the BBC on Newswatch:

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BBC Editors’ Blog: Grammar test

Judith Townend — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:22:11 +0000

This is a little old now, but in case you haven’t found it yet, here’s the BBC’s grammar test – five BBC journalists scored between 12-19, out of a possible 20. The answers are now live too.Similar Posts: