Richard Sambrook
@sambrook.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
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Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…
Now Tom Stoppard’s gone. Sheesh, what a year ….
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Now Tom Stoppard’s gone. Sheesh, what a year ….
I have zero interest in AI music or AI photography. Both seem to miss the entire point to me …
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I have zero interest in AI music or AI photography. Both seem to miss the entire point to me …
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Excellent from @henrymance.ft.com on the BBC
on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?
on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?
Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?
As complaints over the editing of a Donald Trump speech topple another director-general, leading the broadcaster is once again looking like an impossible job
on.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Excellent from @henrymance.ft.com on the BBC
on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?
on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?
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Naomi is I think bang on here. I have said many times to many people that AI is like any other technology shift: it changes jobs and how we work. Naomi builds on that (and expresses it much better), and lands on "learn the skill of discernment". Do read this.
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Naomi is I think bang on here. I have said many times to many people that AI is like any other technology shift: it changes jobs and how we work. Naomi builds on that (and expresses it much better), and lands on "learn the skill of discernment". Do read this.
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The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯
Everyone seems to want to be a guru or thought leader. Anyone up for actually doing the work?
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Everyone seems to want to be a guru or thought leader. Anyone up for actually doing the work?
Flickr down? (For those that still use it)
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Flickr down? (For those that still use it)
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How will the billionaires explain this to the children? We did this for you. We needed AI more than a safe and beautiful planet. Or maybe this will be forgotten knowledge in a few decades. Will it even be memorialised like the dodo, when all we have is propaganda media?
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
How will the billionaires explain this to the children? We did this for you. We needed AI more than a safe and beautiful planet. Or maybe this will be forgotten knowledge in a few decades. Will it even be memorialised like the dodo, when all we have is propaganda media?
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Digital literacy isn’t optional in today's world. Strengthen your armour against disinformation in the fight for democracy. 👇
Beginners Propaganda and Disinformation course - Udemy: www.udemy.com/course/propa...
Propaganda & Disinformation - Level 1 (Beginners)
Understand how manipulative propaganda and new technologies can be used to influence our world
www.udemy.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Digital literacy isn’t optional in today's world. Strengthen your armour against disinformation in the fight for democracy. 👇
Redford, now Keaton ….take
cover, the 70s icons are starting to topple …☹️
cover, the 70s icons are starting to topple …☹️
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Redford, now Keaton ….take
cover, the 70s icons are starting to topple …☹️
cover, the 70s icons are starting to topple …☹️
How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe - BBC investigation www.bbc.com/news/article...
How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation
An undercover reporter discovers a network is offering to pay for social media posts undermining Moldova’s ruling party.
www.bbc.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe - BBC investigation www.bbc.com/news/article...
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@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements.
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, & accountability
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements.
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
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I sense that we have to resolve normalcy bias, with some urgency, to engage in some of today's societal meta-problems.
thedecisionlab.com/biases/norma...
thedecisionlab.com/biases/norma...
September 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I sense that we have to resolve normalcy bias, with some urgency, to engage in some of today's societal meta-problems.
thedecisionlab.com/biases/norma...
thedecisionlab.com/biases/norma...
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Some politicians blame the statisticians when the statistics look grim. How does blaming the messenger generally work out?
timharford.com/2025/09/why-...
timharford.com/2025/09/why-...
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Some politicians blame the statisticians when the statistics look grim. How does blaming the messenger generally work out?
timharford.com/2025/09/why-...
timharford.com/2025/09/why-...