Beyond Broadcast
Friday 3 July, Bloomberg Auditorium, London, EC2
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Sambrook will reflect on concerns and challenges related to journalism ‘beyond broadcast’
Richard Sambrook
Director
BBC Global News
15:15 CHALLENGING FUTURES
Richard Sambrook is Director of the BBC’s Global News division, a role he took up in 2004. He is responsible for leading the BBC’s international news services across radio, television and new media. The division contains BBC World Service radio, BBC Monitoring, BBC World television and the BBC’s international facing online news services. The aim of the division is to create a clear, co-ordinated presence in international media, improving the impact of BBC journalism with global audiences. He is also a member of the BBC’s Executive Direction Board and the BBC’s Journalism Board.
Before taking on his current position, Sambrook was Director of BBC News (2001 to 2004), leading the world’s biggest broadcast news operation. He started out at the BBC in 1980 as a sub-editor in the radio newsroom. In his time at the organisation he has also been senior producer and deputy editor of the Nine O’Clock News, working on location in the Far East, Middle East, Europe, Russia and the United States. He produced the BBC’s news coverage of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and co-ordinated the coverage of the war in Bosnia.
Sambrook holds an MSc in Politics at Birbeck College, London University. His personal blog SacredFacts quotes Daniel Patrick Moynihan: ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts’. Recent posts include comment on the advantages and disadvantages of tracking news from the Iran elections via Twitter. [Read on at the BBC press office]