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JANUARY 2008
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CONTENTS
THE CHANNEL
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JANUARY 08
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THIS ISSUE
FOCUS
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
CHANNELS ON THE RISE
Strategies, audiences, and
future plans from Nigel
Parsons of Al Jazeera,
Margarita Simonyan at Russia
Today, France 24’s Alain de
Pouzilhac and Mohammad
Sarafraz at Press TV
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EDITORIAL
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GLOBAL BRIEFING
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AIB INTERVIEW
Hanh Tran, CEO, Radio Australia
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AIB NEWS
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FACT FILE
Christodoulos Protopapas, CEO, Hellas Sat
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FACT FILE
Uta Thofern, Editor in Chief,
DW-World.deREGULARS
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AND THE WINNERS ARE...
Winners and finalists of the 2007 AIB Media Excellence Awards
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BUSINESS NEWS GOING MAINSTREAM?
For Bloomberg TV’s Brian Martinez it’s strictly news and not entertainment
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ADDICTED TO DIGITAL
Tomi Ahonen affords us an insight into “Digital Korea”
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BBC WORLD SERVICE GETS INTO TV
Global news director Richard Sambrook on standing out in a crowded
marketplace
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THE CHANNEL 4 MEDIA ACCESS PROJECT
Technical director Spencer Todd on how Pharos managed the project
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INSPIRATIONAL UPLOAD
Simon Spanswick reports on gene pools, writers, vaccines and quite a bit of
social networking at the DLD conference
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RADIO ARRIVES AND SO DOES ELECTRICITY
MDLF helps launch the first radio stations in remote Papua
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FOCUSING ON GROWTH
Internationalisation is key in Norcom’s strategy
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ELECTRONIC COUCH POTATO
How Pixelmetrix probes end-users’ quality of experience
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