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BBC College Of Journalism
The BBC Academy is an educational arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation which trains current and prospective broadcasting employees in the skills of the Broadcasting industry, in addition to training the corporation's own staff and prospects. A subsidiary of the academy, the BBC College of Journalism, functions as a free e-learning, online course series for all licence-fee payers. History Its origins lie in a post-Hutton inquiry report commissioned by former BBC editor Ron Neil and Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 2004 which recommended a number of broad reforms of the BBC which included the establishment of a journalistic academy headed by an academic principal. The BBC College of Journalism was opened as an e-learning course series in June 2005, with Kevin Marsh as Executive Editor. Its first Director was Vin Ray. The academy, which joined together the curricula of training in Journalism, Production, Leadership and Technology, was opened for students on 14 December 2009, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Broadcasting Corporation
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public broadcasting, public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual Television licensing in the United Kingdom, television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, BBC iPlayer, iPla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the data distribution, distribution of sound, audio audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via a electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a :wikt:one-to-many, one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and radio receiver, receivers. Before this, most implementations of electronic communication (early radio, telephone, and telegraph) were wikt:one-to-one, one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term ''broadcasting'' evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about. It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials or by telegraph. Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hutton Inquiry
The Hutton Inquiry was a 2003 judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour Party (UK), Labour government to investigate the controversial circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly (weapons expert), David Kelly, a biological warfare expert and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq. On 18 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence, was found dead after he had been named as the source of quotations used by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan. These quotations had formed the basis of media reports claiming that the government had knowingly "sexed up" the "September Dossier", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. The inquiry opened in August 2003 and reported on 28 January 2004. The Hutton report cleared the government of wrongdoing, while the BBC was strongly criticised, leading to the resignation of the BBC's chairman Gavyn Davies and director-general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Neil
Ronald John Baillie Neil CBE (born June 1942) is a former BBC television journalist and news editor, who rose to become the BBC's overall director of news and current affairs in the late 1980s. He retired in 1998, but was recalled in 2004 to review BBC journalism and values in response to the criticisms made by the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly. Career Originally a newspaper reporter from Glasgow, he joined BBC Scotland in 1967 as a radio reporter based in Aberdeen, just as the television service moved to a more hard news agenda with the inception of ''Reporting Scotland'' the following year. One story he covered for ''Reporting Scotland'' was the loss of the Longhope lifeboat in 1969. He has supported the lifeboats ever since, and as of 2009 is deputy chairman of the RNLI board of trustees.T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers, also known as PwC, is a multinational professional services network based in London, United Kingdom. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY, and KPMG. The PwC network is overseen by PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, an English private company limited by guarantee. PwC firms are in 140 countries, with 370,000 people. 26% of the workforce was based in the Americas, 26% in Asia, 32% in Western Europe, and 5% in Middle East and Africa. The company's global revenues were US$50.3 billion in FY 2022, of which $18.0 billion was generated by its Assurance practice, $11.6 billion by its Tax and Legal practice and $20.7 billion by its Advisory practice. The firm in its recent actual form was created in 1998 by a merger between two accounting firms: Coopers & Lybrand, and Price Waterhouse. Both firms had histories dating back to the 19th century. The tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh (born 14 November 1954) is the Editor of the BBC College of Journalism. Early life He was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1954 to John and Elizabeth Jill Marsh. He attended Doncaster Grammar School from 1966–73 and became Captain of School, as well as Captain of Cricket. He read Classics and English at Christ Church, Oxford and gained an MA in the year1978. He also wrote for Isis magazine. Career BBC He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1978. After working in Blackburn, Birmingham, and Belfast, he joined the BBC Radio 4 Programme, '' The World at One'' - then presented by Sir Robin Day. In 1986, he joined ITN and returned to the BBC at the beginning of 1988 as Deputy editor of ''The World at One''. In August 1989 he became Editor of '' PM'', moving on three years later to edit ''The World at One''. In 1996, he became joint editor of both ''The World at One'' and ''PM'' and in 1998, launched the new Sunday morning news programme ''Broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vin Ray
Vin Ray is a member of the BBC's Journalism Board and the first Director of the BBC College of Journalism. History in the BBC Ray joined the BBC in CEEFAX in 1987 and moved on to work as a producer on the Nine O'Clock News under the editorship of Mark Thompson. As a foreign field producer, Ray worked on many of the big stories of the early 1990s, including the first Gulf War, the Gorbachev coup and the Bosnian war. In the UK, he was in charge of the field operation for the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, as well as numerous IRA bombings. He became TV Foreign Editor in 1993 and two years later became the bi-medial Foreign Editor across domestic TV and radio. In 1996 he was asked to merge the Newsgathering operations of the World Service and the domestic News and Current Affairs, becoming World News Editor, the first person to take charge of the BBC's entire foreign newsgathering operations. Influenced by the deaths and injuries of colleagues—he was with Martin Bell in Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Norton, Worcestershire
Wood Norton Hall is a Listed building, Grade II* listed Victorian stately home to the northwest of Evesham, Worcestershire, Evesham, Worcestershire, England. It was the last home in England of Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869–1926), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who claimed the throne of France. Used by the BBC during World War II as an emergency broadcasting centre and a station for listening to enemy radio broadcasts, it became the accommodation for the BBC's engineering training college that grew up in its grounds. The BBC retained purpose-built facilities in the grounds for technical training after selling the Hall, which became a hotel. History The site of a dwelling since medieval times, Wood Norton was once the home of Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869–1926), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, the last pretender to the throne of France. The 'Great Gates' at the entrance to the estate had once stood before York House, Twickenham, York House in Twickenh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evesham
Evesham () is a market town and Civil parishes in England, parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, England, Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon. It lies within the Vale of Evesham, an area comprising the flood plain of the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon, which has been renowned for market gardening. The town centre, situated within a meander of the river, is subjected regularly to flooding. 2007 United Kingdom floods, The 2007 floods were the most severe in recorded history. The town was founded around an 8th-century Evesham Abbey, abbey, one of the largest in Europe, which was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, with only Evesham Bell Tower, Abbot Lichfield's Bell Tower remaining. During the 13th century, one of the two main battles of England's Second Barons' War took place near the town, marking the victory of Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Divisions
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Birmingham, West Midlands
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education also follows a structured approach but occurs outside the formal schooling system, while informal education involves unstructured learning through daily experiences. Formal and non-formal education are categorized into levels, including early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, and tertiary education. Other classifications focus on teaching methods, such as teacher-centered and student-centered education, and on subjects, such as science education, language education, and physical education. Additionally, the term "education" can denote the mental states and qualities of educated individuals and the academic field studying educational phenomena. The precise definition of education is disputed, and there are disagreements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalism Schools In The United Kingdom
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumpt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
