Sambrook blog goes public

Posted by Martin Stabe on 26 September 2006 at 09:32
Tags: BBC, Blogs, Guardian, Journalism

The BBC’s most-senior internal blogger, director of global news Richard Sambrook, has emerged from behind the Beeb’s firewall. Sambrook, one of the Beeb’s most enthusiastic adopters of blogging, now has a publically-accessioble personal blog called SacredFacts.

Sambrook, like all senior media executives with personal blogs, will have to tread carefully between having interesting things to say without spilling the beans about any of the BBC’s internal plans, pointed out Guardian Unlimited’s Neil McIntosh on his own personal blog, Complete Tosh.

McIntosh recounts that he carefully avoiding tipping the world off about the Guardian’s podcasting plans by discussing his newfound interest in audio equipment earlier this year: “Such is the pace of change in this industry that, earlier this year, even to say I was thinking lots about radio, and what works and what doesn’t, would give a heads-up as to what we were doing. And, although it’s not very 2.0 to say so, that simply wouldn’t be a very smart thing to do.”

Now, about my new obsession with green screens and HDV camcorders … Oh, wait.

Tags: BBC, Blogs, Guardian, Journalism