THE CHANNEL
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ISSUE 1 2015
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NEAL ROMANEK EDITOR
P21
JOURNALISMJAILED
Working to freeAlJazeera’s
staff inCairo
P36
TAKINGTVTOCOURT
How
CarteBlanche
broadcast thePistorius trial
THE INTERNATIONALMEDIAMAGAZINEFORTV,RADIO,ONLINE&MOBILE
ISSUE1 |2015
TheChannel
Secondscreen,firstplace
Whatworksandwhatdoesn’t
Ontheradar
Formidablecitizen journalists
The pathfindersmapping
the digital landscape
#iamabroadcaster
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Greetings, broadcasters. With Gunda Cannon moving on
to head AIB’s International Relations team, I am privileged
to introduce myself as the editor of
The Channel
and the
Editorial Director of AIB. In my new role, I’m responsible
for exploring the issues and investigating the topics that
you, as readers, AIB members, and the broadcast
community, want to explore.
The Channel
is
your
magazine. The AIB is
your
resource. Gunda shepherded
The Channel
through its infancy into one of the top journals
for international broadcasters. I hope it’s just the beginning
and that you’ll join me in making AIB the top knowledge
sharing resource for the global media industry.
To that end, AIB starts 2015 with its #iamabroadcaster
Global Media Summit. Held in London, on February 18-
19, #iamabroadcaster will take a hard, clear-eyed look at
exactly where the media industry stands in a world where
anyone with a data connection can call themselves a
broadcaster. “Stampy Longnose”, a young British man
who started posting Minecraft games on YouTube, just
might be the most successful children’s broadcaster in
history - it’s a bad day when his videos only rate two
million views. And an online book store that grew into the
world’s favourite shopping outlet has made made its
“Amazon Pilot Season” a globally anticipated event. While
traditional broadcasters alter strategies to adapt to the
online and OTT space, Amazon, Netflix, and a host of
other online offerings are luring viewers away from the
traditional broadcasting in droves. In its two days of
discussion and networking, #iamabroadcaster will unravel
this brave new world - and, more, inspire a new vision for
the future of media.
In this #iamabroadcaster Preview Issue of
The Channel
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we look at the multitude of ways traditional broadcast has
been upended and forced to evolve. The US Broadcasting
Board of Governors describes its new mobile strategy,
designed for a global population that gets most of its
information through handheld devices. South Africa’s
Carte Blanche
tells how it created a one-off pop-up
channel to cover the Oscar Pistorius trial, bringing
cameras into South African courtrooms for the first time.
And Tom Roope, creative director of London’s The
Rumpus Room (and a speaker at the #iamabroadcaster
Summit) reminds us that in the wake of the digital
revolution, “the key brand for most people is themselves”.
This issue also features coverage of our tenth annual
AIBs
,
which took place in November, with a full list of the
winners and an interview with BBC journalist Shaimaa
Khalil whose reporting from the turbulent streets of Cairo
earned her the AIB award for Radio Personality of the Year.
AIB is dedicated to, and was founded on, the principle that
information and ideas should be shared freely, across all
borders. The risks in upholding this ideal have become
increasingly obvious in the past year. The recent abuses
against the press have been unprecedented, with journalists
becoming tools of fundamentalist and reactionary forces
around the globe – sometimes at the expense of their own
freedom, sometimes paying with their lives. We are
reminded that in the interconnected world, preserving
everyone’s right to tell their story is a responsibility that
belongs to us all.
In this issue’s interview with Al Jazeera’s Heather Allan,
about the network’s three journalists held captive in an
Egyptian prison, she says, “We’re going to continue to
push for journalist freedoms and for freedom of speech. I
think in the year to come it’s going to become very much a
rallying cry.” #iamabroadcaster
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