5 posts tagged richard sambrook

I'm delighted to see the Bangladesh Boat Project amongst the BBC World Service prizewinners at the Sony awards. This fantastic journey won the newly-created Multiplatfrom Radio Award. Here, my colleague Ben Sutherland, who was onboard the boat itself, will describe...

Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News at the BBC World Service and a great blogger, is giving the opening talk at a small conference hosted by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the Berkman Center. The aim of the conference is to talk about how we can begin to assess how the media are changing and what’s going on with participatory journalism.

BBC World Service launches a new channel tomorrow morning - BBC Arabic will be adding television to the mix. Initially it will broadcast 12 hours a day, moving to 24 hours later in the year. Arabic was the first language beyond English the World Service launched 70 years ago.

Richard Sambrook of the BBC World Service has a fascinating post (from Dec 17, so I’m a little slow) about the meaning and effect of Facebook groups in different countries, focusing on the Middle East. [Tags: facebook middle_east richard_sambrook ]

Seventy five years ago this week the BBC's first director general, Lord Reith, launched what was then called the BBC's Empire Service. Then, radio was a relatively new technology, much as the internet is today.