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BBC Radio 4: The Jean Charles de Menezes IPCC leak

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BBC Radio 4’s Fergal Keane talks to Lana Vandenberghe, the office worker who leaked documents concerning the Jean Charles de Menezes case.

‘As files passed across secretarial worker Lana Vandenberghe’s desk at the Independent Police Complaints Commission in London, she began to feel that facts of the case were being misrepresented – or not presented at all – to the public,” Keane reports.

“Her decision to take a stand and leak the story to the press would contribute to the pressure on the then Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair to resign, but did it also undermine the IPCC?”

BBC Radio 4 Feedback looks at the BBC News blogs (audio)

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When they started, the BBC didn’t know why or what it was for: Nick Robinson tried out one for the General Election in 2001.

Now Robert Peston is getting a half million hits per day.

Here Louise Adamson from Radio 4’s Feedback programme looks at the role of the BBC’s News blogs.

The BBC journalists interviewed stress that the BBC voice has to be considered, and that blogs still go through careful checks.

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Reminder: Radio 4’s The Media Show starts next Wednesday

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Just a quick reminder for next week, since we last reported on it in July. The new media show, erm, called The Media Show, will start on BBC Radio 4 from October 1. It will look at the media world across print, TV, online and telecommunications.

It will go out live each Wednesday at 1.30pm. We’re looking forward to it – let’s hope it has a good online presence too (especially because we’ll be at the AOP conference that day. While it’s possible to Twitter discreetly, it’s not so easy to listen to the radio).

The original BBC press release can be read here.

Steve Hewlett to front Radio 4 media show

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BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a new weekly programme on the media industry from October.

Presented by former TV executive Steve Hewlett, The Media Show will also be available as a podcast and will run for a year.

It will focus on changes affecting all aspects of the industry: print, online, television, radio and telecommunications, a release from the BBC said.