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| occupation = Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism at [[Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies]] ([[Cardiff University]]). |
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| known_for = Ex-Director of [[BBC World Service]] |
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'''Richard Sambrook''' (born 24 April 1956) is Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism at [[Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies]] ([[Cardiff University]])<ref name="sambrook">{{cite web|title=PROFESSOR RICHARD SAMBROOK|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/sambrook-richard.html|publisher=Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies|accessdate=17 May 2014}}</ref>. For 30 years, until February 2010, he was a [[BBC]] [[journalism|journalist]] and news executive. He spent ten years on the management board of the BBC becoming successively Director of [[BBC Sport]], [[BBC News]] and, latterly, Director of [[BBC World Service]] and Global News. From 2010 until 2012 he was Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer of the [[Edelman (firm)|Edelman]] [[public relations]] agency. |
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Sambrook was educated at [[Maidstone]] Technical High School, at the [[University of Reading]] (BA in English) and at [[Birkbeck, University of London|Birkbeck College, University of London]] (MSc in politics). His career began in local [[newspaper]]s in South [[Wales]]. |
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His time at the BBC was almost entirely in daily news. He was a programme editor, news editor and, later, Head of Newsgathering when the Corporation won a number of awards for its international news coverage. He merged radio and television news, and domestic and World Service newsgathering during this time, resulting in the world's largest broadcast news operation. He was acting Director of Sport in 2000, and became Director of News in 2001. |
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Sambrook defended in June/July 2003 what became the highly controversial [[Today programme]] report that the [[Tony Blair|Blair government]] had in its ''[[September Dossier]]'' knowingly exaggerated claims relating to [[Iraq]]'s supposed possession of [[weapons of mass destruction]]. On 20 July, he confirmed that [[David Kelly (weapons expert)|Dr. David Kelly]] had been the source of the news item. He later gave evidence to the [[Hutton Inquiry]] into Kelly's apparent suicide. |
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Sambrook became Director of the [[World Service]] and Global News in September 2004. He oversaw major restructuring of the World Service, and its opening of Arabic and Persian television, as well as commercial interactive services. |
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Since January 2010, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the [[Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism]] at the [[University of Oxford]]. |
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He is a Trustee of the [[World Wide Fund for Nature|WWF]]-UK and of the International News Safety Institute for which he led an inquiry into the deaths of journalists around the world. |
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From 2006-2009, he was Vice President of the [[European Broadcasting Union]] and represented public broadcasters on the advisory group to the [[United Nations|UN's]] [[Internet Governance Forum]]. He was a member of the leadership committee of the [[Global Media AIDS Initiative]], established by [[United Nations|UN]] Secretary General [[Kofi Annan]] in 2004. He was on the advisory board of the [[British Council]] and was formerly Chairman of the BBC's international charity, the World Service Trust, and a trustee of the free-speech [[NGO]] [[Article 19]]. He is a Fellow of the [[Royal Television Society]] and of the [[Royal Society of Arts]]. |
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Sambrook is married with two children. |
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*[http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/are-foreign-correspondents-redundan.html Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? (Reuters Institute)] |
*[http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/are-foreign-correspondents-redundan.html Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? (Reuters Institute)] |
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*[http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/poliak/sambrook.asp Columbia University Poliak Lecture , 2005] |
*[http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/poliak/sambrook.asp Columbia University Poliak Lecture , 2005] |
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjbeLBZ0tg&feature=related Speaking at European Journalism Centre Conference] |
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjbeLBZ0tg&feature=related Speaking at European Journalism Centre Conference] |
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Revision as of 10:06, 17 May 2014
External links
- Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? (Reuters Institute)
- Appointed Professor of Journalism
- BBC press office biography
- Killing The Messenger report for INSI
- The case against censorship, 2005
- Interview in the Guardian
- Interview by Ray Snoddy, the Independent
- Columbia University Poliak Lecture , 2005
- Speaking at European Journalism Centre Conference