EBU Live

Ben Hammersley's liveblogging of the EBU Radio News Meeting, Paris, May 2008.
May 23

This site's address:

http://eburadionews.tumblr.com/
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“ If the threshold of breakability is not certain, you run the risk of confusing your audience…with the deadly result of a lack of trust in the news system… Vittorio Argento, RAI Radio Uno, Italy
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Centurion Risk Assessment Services
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Stefan Troendle, Crisis Team Editor, SWR, Germany
Stefan Troendle, Crisis Team Editor, SWR, Germany
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“ At the time, the transistor was a ten-year-old invention. Just like the internet today. Gilles Schneider, Secretary-General in charge of News, Radio France
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The final session of the day

Then and now: 1968+40 - Gilles Schneider, Stefan Troendle, Vittorio Argento.
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Rush Limbaugh
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Arthur Landwehr asks the room if anyone would vote for John McCain…

silence

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“ Explain. Explain. Explain. Arthur Landwehr
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Frédéric Bartholdi - the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty - Wikipedia
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A SRF producer in Washington.
A SRF producer in Washington.
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“ There are ten of us in Washington. Myself, and nine squirrels in my garden. Bertrand Vannier, Envoyé Spécial Permanent à Washington, SRF France
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“ The journalist’s job is to make politicians uncomfortable, to explore evasions, contradictions and vulnerabilities. David Brooks, quoted by Albrecht Ziegler
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