Kirsty Lang
@thatkirstylang
Broadcaster & writer. BBC Radio, Front Row, Last Word, Round Britain Quiz. Sunday Times, FT, Chair Baltic Centre & Global Witness London/Vienna
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qxpr 30-01-2011 10:34:59
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Great to so many brave & dedicated investigative journalists gathered in one room today Truth Tellers inspired by the great Harry Evans
📰The Battered Business Of News The assaults on the business model for real journalism are only increasing. What’s the solution? 🗣️ @bbcrosatkins @emmatuckerwsj Jeff Zucker, Nishant Lalwani Joshi Herrmann 🔴 Livestream now: sirharrysummit.org/watch #sirharrysummit @wsj @theintlfund
Truth Tellers: a rebel yell for journalism, which is under such assault. Watch the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism. Summit live here from 9.30am: sirharrysummit.org/watch/
Full programme sirharrysummit.org/agenda #sirharrysummit @tinabrownlm @reuters Durham University Tortoise
We talked to people who are doing this in the UK too Kirsty Lang BBC Radio 4
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Moscow is pumping money into disinformation campaigns across Africa - including upcoming South African elections africacenter.org/spotlight/mapp… via Africa Center
This #UNESCOWorldPressFreedomDay , Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font called for an end to violence against Land and Environmental Defenders, citing our finding that more than three-quarters of defenders killed in 2021 and 2022 were in Latin America ⬇️
Agree the stories behind (the fearless NGO) Global Witness would make a great TV drama - McMafia with an environmental twist ! Can’t wait to read this Patrick Alley
Octopus Publishing did a terrific job in publishing VERY BAD PEOPLE in 2022. Now we have more breathtaking exposes of global corruption in TERRIBLE HUMANS published this week. Surely a TV show before too long…jake lingwood Global Witness
Two more great photography exhibitions .Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art #gateshead #Newcastle
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Kirsty Lang BBC News (UK) Newsnight’s demise is not merely sad. The loss of informative, intelligent, fearless, trustworthy journalism is catastrophic the BBC. Newsnight had a unique role with integrity and gravitas that can never be replaced by jokey, ungrounded pod casts.
I was fortunate enough to be a reporter on #BBC #Newsnight in the 1990s working alongside Michael Crick and Jeremy Paxman. Glory days. BBC News (UK) thetimes.co.uk/article/i-live…