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The Chartered Institute of Journalists has never been in any doubt about the importance and significance of the BBC and its history. We are the oldest established professional association of journalists in the world and we were first established in 1884. 38 years later in 1922 one of our Fellows, Arthur Burrows, was the BBC’s…
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The government will launch a wide-ranging call for evidence in 2023 following the publication last year of the Justice Committee’s open justice report into court reporting in the digital age. The Institute made a significant contribution to the report, seeking statutory clarification of the rights of media organisations to documents quoted in evidence, and, exposing…
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Arthur Richard Burrows was British broadcasting’s multiple pioneer. He was the first journalist to be employed by the nascent British Broadcast Company in 1922, its first director of programmes for its first London radio station 2LO, the first person to compile and present a news bulletin for the BBC, The BBC’s first ‘Radio Uncle’ for…
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This book is described as an A-Z guide on how ‘to stay informed in the era of fake news’ and has been written by the Guardian’s former Editor-in-Chief who currently edits Prospect Magazine. Alan Rusbridger held the Guardian editor’s tiller for twenty years between 1995 and 2015. He is something of a polymath. Between the…
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This unique 638 page ‘authorised’ history of the BBC by Professor David Hendy succeeds in being readable, scholarly, interesting and entertaining. The last time an official history was researched and written was by another Professor at Sussex University, Lord Asa Briggs. That needed five volumes, took 35 years, and comprises nearly 4,000 pages. Volume V…
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