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July 2006
If you visit this Solomon Islands beach you’ll
be able to tune into Radio Australia on
107FM as Jean-Gabriel Manguy explains
See who the AIB’s got its eyes on as we
reveal our Media Leaders 2006
Death of a journalist - Andrew Kain says not
enough is being done for journalist safety
Play-out has become a major industry as the
multichannel enviroment develops
4 Global briefing
16 Life’s a beach
The AIB Interview the Jean-Gabriel Manguy, head of ABC Radio Australia
16 AIBcalendar
More trade shows, more conferences! Take the AIB’s advice on the best of the pack
17 Media Leaders 2006
The AIB brings you the people it thinks you should watch over the coming year, people
who are putting the most into electronic media and the ones who we think will create the
biggest splash in the industry
22 Turning on theworld
Satellite radio has become a significant force in North America but what about the rest of
the world? WORLDSPACE is trying to replicate US business models around the world
25 Satisfaction at the wash-upmeeting
Saman Jayalath explains what is involved in recruiting staff in the media industry
26 How safe is safe?
Andrew Kain talks about the compelling need for journalist safety
28 Managingchange
Sometimes media consulting is dubbed mission impossible. Deutsche Welle’s Thomas
Kirschning disagrees as he reports on the EU project for a new PSB in Bosnia and
Herzegovina
30 Making its mark in theMiddle East
Brian Conniff talks about his challenges as he takes over at the helm of Alhurra and
Radio Sawa
31 Subscribe to TheChannel
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32 Newmedia ousting the old?
What has InterMedia’s global study to understand how the Internet is used to gather news
and information revealed? Sarah Glacel explains some of the results and implications
34 Thinking out of the box
Sue Schardt takes an inside look at US radio through the lens of freelance programming
36 Recognition for a survior
Olga Mirzoian reports on the top accolade given to Zimbabwe’s Radio Voice of Peace
39 AIB news
As the AIB’s membership grows, so does the level of the organisation’s services
40 Playing out to the world
Play-out has become increasingly important in the multi-channel world, as Sass
Jahani knows
42 ArabBroadcast Forum2006
The AIB reports from the inaugural pan-regional conference focusing on broadcast news
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