1 February 2017
The latest articles in the AIB’s international media magazine, The Channel, are now available to read online or to download.
This month we focus on the ever more critical issue of cyber security and take a look at international broadcasting from the United States of America.
The chair of the AIB‘s Cyber Security Working Group, Denis Onuoha (CISO at Arqiva), talks about the need for all companies to focus efforts on protecting themselves from cyber attack. He also explains what is being done to ensure collaboration across the media industry.
We talk with John Lansing, CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, about the way US international broadcasting is set up and how it is having an impact around the world.
Go to The Channel page of the AIB website to read these and other editions of the magazine
1 February 2017
Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) continues to serve people across the Pacific region, delivering essential day to day news and information and providing a vital lifeline in times of natural disaster.
RNZ CEO, Paul Thompson, has confirmed that there will be no reduction in Radio New Zealand’s commitment to its Pacific broadcast partners. His reassurance comes as Radio Australia closes its international shortwave transmission service to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.
Paul Thompson has emphasised the importance of RNZI’s 25 year relationship with New Zealand’s Pacific neighbours.
“Remote parts of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu who may be feeling the loss of the ABC can rest assured RNZI will continue to provide independent, timely and accurate news, information and weather warnings as well as entertainment to its Pacific listeners.”
RNZI has been broadcasting since 1990 to the Pacific and is regarded as the authoritative voice of the Pacific. It can be heard across the region and has proven to be a vital lifeline during times of disaster. In 2007 RNZI was named international Radio Station of the Year by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).
RNZI broadcasts timely cyclone and tsunami warnings via shortwave and can continue to be heard should local broadcasters go off-air due to a cyclone or other disaster.
Paul Thompson said the essential nature of Radio New Zealand’s role in the Pacific has been regularly underlined by the positive feedback to RNZI following cyclone and tsunami alerts.
“A Vanuatu villager has told our reporter Koroi Hawkins that he knew to take shelter during Cyclone Pam just because of the warnings broadcast on RNZI. At times like this we are the essential voice of the Pacific “
Chief Ben Lovo and his family stand outside their home in Bongkil Village on Erromango. In his hand is a little transistor radio which he used to tune into RNZI broadcasts of information on Cyclone Pam. “Chief Ben says when Vanuatu radio stations went down, RNZI was his only source of information on the path of Cyclone Pam and allowed him to warn four villages in his area in the hours before Pam hit.” Names: Chief Ben Lovo and Wife Eva Lovo with baby Jay, Richard (Reggae Shirt) and Samuel (blue trousers.)
RNZI’s coverage of the aftermath of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in 2015 won RNZI reporter Koroi
Hawkins a silver medal at the prestigious New York Festival Radio Awards in 2016.
RNZI broadcasts in digital and analogue short wave to radio stations and individual listeners
across the Pacific region.
Around twenty Pacific radio stations relay RNZI material daily, and individual short-wave
listeners and internet users across the world tune in directly to RNZI content.
The RNZI signal can sometimes be heard as far away as Japan, North America, the Middle East
and Europe. RNZI also provides rich content for online users through its website
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international
How to listen to RNZI: http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen
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Editor Note: Photograph to be attributed to RNZI.
For further information contact:
Walter Zweifel, RNZI News Editor +644 474 1432
walter.zweifel@radionz.co.nz
Adrian Sainsbury, RNZI Technical Manager, +644 474 1430
adrian.sainsbury@radionz.co.nz
31 January 2017
The Association for International Broadcasting has confirmed its commitment to supporting the .radio top level domain at the Salon de la Radio in Paris. The new .radio top level domain is a community-based domain that the AIB has supported throughout the application process, along with other broadcasting unions. ICANN granted the .radio domain last year, with the EBU as the principal organiser.
The first World .Radio Advisory Board meeting took place in Paris on 30 January where a range of issues concerning the launch of the top level domain were discussed. At the meeting, the President and Vice-Presidents of the Advisory Board were elected.
The AIB’s chief executive, Simon Spanswick, was elected President (centre in picture above); Nawaaz Doohkee, Head of Legal Affairs at the ABU (third from right) and Vincent Sneed, Director of Regulatory Affairs at the AER (third from left) were elected Vice Presidents.
“It is a great honour to be elected to lead the work of the World .Radio Advisory Board,” commented Simon Spanswick. “Along with my colleagues from other broadcasting unions and associations, we will be working to make the .radio top level domain a tremendous success across the radio industry. There has already been interest from broadcasters and from other organisations involved in the ever growing radio industry in making effective and creative use of this new top level domain. In the coming months as we move closer to the opening of registrations, we will be working to ensure that everyone involved in radio around the world has the opportunity to harness the power of .radio addresses on the Internet.”
For more information on the .radio top level domain, visit register.radio.
25 January 2017
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today announced the unanimous election of Kenneth Weinstein, who has served as a Board Member since October 2013, to the position of Acting Board Chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Weinstein takes over from Mr. Jeff Shell, who served as Chairman of the Board since August 2013. Mr. Shell, the Chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, will continue to serve as a Board Member.
“This transition illustrates BBG’s commitment to ensuring high caliber, accomplished leaders in the agency,” said outgoing Chairman Jeff Shell. “Ken is a consummate professional and a wonderful person to boot, whose contribution to the Board has been invaluable. He is the perfect person to work with CEO John Lansing as he continues to lead key reforms and advance growth at BBG.”
In his acceptance of the Chairman role, Mr. Weinstein said, “Working to advance the mission of BBG throughout the world is truly an honor, and I am excited to work with my fellow Board Members and with CEO Lansing in this new capacity. CEO Lansing’s leadership has been crucial to our continual progress here at BBG. During his tenure, the agency’s total audience grew by 52 million to an estimated total 278 million people weekly, in 100 countries and 61 languages, even as he leads internal reforms that tighten processes, save money, and cultivate impact. I and other Board members continue to support John’s leadership, having voted on January 19 to reaffirm his authority, without objection, and I look forward to working together. I also want to thank Jeff Shell, whose unmatched dedication and strategic leadership of the Board have been critical to the transformation of the agency.”
Kenneth R. Weinstein is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute, a think tank focused on promoting American leadership and global engagement for a secure, free, and prosperous future.
A political theorist by training whose academic work focuses on the early Enlightenment, Mr. Weinstein has written widely on international affairs for leading publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Bungei Shunju (Japan), Le Figaro (France), Le Monde (France), The Wall Street Journal, and the Yomiuri Shimbun.
He has been decorated with a knighthood in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Mr. Weinstein previously served by presidential appointment and Senate confirmation on the National Humanities Council, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Mr. Weinstein graduated from The University of Chicago (B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities), the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (D.E.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies), and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Government).
Additionally, on January 24, the Board noted the resignation of public diplomacy expert Matthew Armstrong, who served on the Board since August 2013.
In noting Mr. Armstrong’s resignation, Mr. Weinstein stated, “Matt was a pleasure to work with and his accomplishments are many. I wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
(Source: BBG press release)
18 January 2017
Content from BBC Ukrainian is now available to the users of the popular Ukrainian news website, Novoye Vremya, as it now carries news stories from the website bbc.ua, in Ukrainian and Russian, in text and video.
Novoye Vremya (nv.ua) is the website of the Ukrainian weekly social and political news magazine of the same name. It now displays the BBC Ukrainian reporting and analysis of international and regional news relevant to Ukrainian audiences, including the BBC’s coverage of business, art, entertainment and sport.
BBC Ukrainian Editor, Nina Kuryata says: “We welcome the collaboration with Novoye Vremya, a widely respected Ukrainian publication. This new partnership will help us showcase to a new audience relevant and engaging content from bbc.ua.”
Chief Project Manager, nv.ua, Oleg Lysenko, adds: “We want to provide our readers with high-quality and timely information. Our cooperation with BBC Ukrainian – with which we share high journalistic standards, objectivity and impartiality – will deliver just that.”
BBC Ukrainian is part of BBC World Service.
(Source: BBC World Service press release)
17 January 2017
Euronews: inside the World Economic Forum 2017
Euronews ups its coverage of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 with daily news coverage and live broadcasts of two panel discussions featuring global leaders, moderated by Isabelle Kumar
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News daily coverage
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Throughout the week, Euronews special correspondents in Davos, Isabelle Kumar (Davos’ media leader) and Sarah Chappell, report on this major event where global leaders gather to share their views on this year’s designated topics: Responsive and Responsible Leadership, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Global Collaboration, Building Positive Identities, Fixing Market Capitalism, and Restoring Economic Growth. |
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The Global Conversation LIVE from Davos
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LIVE on Wednesday 18th at 09:15am CET – Duration: 45 minutes
then on Saturday 21st at 11:15 CET and 23:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 12:15 CET. |
| Isabelle Kumar leads the discussion on a crucial topic: Integration policies based on multiculturalism or assimilation are being challenged in this era of cultural divisiveness. How can we build a new social contract that ensures trust between people of varied backgrounds?
The panel brings together Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Brendan Cox, international campaigner and activist, and husband of the late UK Labour MP, Jo Cox, murdered as she campaigned for Britain to stay part of the European Union; Alexander de Croo, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, and novelist and political commentator Elif Shafak, the most widely-read female author in Turkey. |
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LIVE on Thursday 19th at 15:00 CET – Duration: 45 minutes
then on Saturday 21st at 16:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 01:15 CET and 14:15 CET |
| Russia is the focus of our second panel discussion “How are national politics and a new economic and geopolitical context reshaping Russia’s role in the world?”
Isabelle Kumar puts the question to First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the Board of Ulmart, Russia’s leading E-commerce site Dmitry Kostygin, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, Founder, Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio, and the Minister of Foreign & European affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak. |
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Monday 23rd January at 21:45 CET
In a 10-minute wrap-up of the World Economic Forum, Euronews’ team looks back at the event’s highlights: interviews of leading figures, and new initiatives and common resolutions reached at the meeting. |
| About Isabelle Kumar |
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Isabelle Kumar is a British journalist.
She joined Euronews in 2003 and is now one of the channel’s leading reporters.
She has presented various programmes on Euronews and currently hosts the flagship interview programme “The Global Conversation”.
Isabelle has interviewed many world leaders and covers politics and international current affairs. |
(Source: Euronews press release)
