Professor Richard Sambrook

BA (Reading), MSc (Birkbeck, London)

Emeritus Professor

: sambrookrj@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 208 70982
: Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS

: Media commentator

I am Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism which undertakes postgraduate vocational training. Previously, I was Director of Global News at the BBC where I worked as a journalist for 30 years as a producer, editor and manager.

I have been a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University where I undertook research into the future of international newsgathering and the place of impartiality and objectivity in the digital world.

Read Professor Sambrook's posts on the 'JOMEC @ Cardiff University' Blog.

Recent Media

Have 24 hour News Channels had their day?

Has digital technology robbed TV news channels of their purpose?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/03/tv-24-hour-news-channels-bbc-rolling

Is there enough scrutinity of Welsh Politics

Interview on The Wales Report in a discussion on whether there is enough scrutiny of Welsh politics. (BBC One, The Wales Report, 22.1.14)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q8m47/The_Wales_Report_22_01_2014/ (begin from: 20:00min)

After Leveson: end journalism's amateur romance and get professional

The first of two extracts published in Roy Greenslade's Guardian blog. The extract is from the book After Leveson? It is edited by John Mair.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/mar/04/leveson-report-polls

After Leveson: how to rebuild trust and credibility in journalism

The second of two extracts published in Roy Greenslade's Guardian blog, from the book After Leveson? Here, Professor Sambrook asks whether it might be possible to build journalistic professionalism through formalising education and whether employers could be persuaded to support it...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/mar/05/leveson-report-lord-justice-leveson

BBC World Service

In a special extended edition of BBC World Service's Over to You – the Editors, Richard Sambrook finds out how international media editors have been tackling the challenge of covering the US presidential election and Chinese leadership changes within a single week.

Richard's editors meeting includes guests from Time Magazine, Huffington Post, The Economist, China Times and Ohio's Plain Dealer Newspaper, plus the BBC's Raymond Li in Hong Kong.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0104k0x First broadcast: Saturday 10 November 2012 and available until 10/11/2013

_{Career Overview}

_{2012 - present: Professor of Journalism and Deputy Head of School, JOMEC}
_{2010-2012 Global Vice Chairman, Edelman}
_{2004-2010 DIrector of BBC Global News and World Service}
_{2001-2004 Director of News, BBC,}
_{1996-2000 Head of Newsgathering, BBC News}
_{1992-1996, News Editor, BBC News}
_{1980-1992, Producer and Editor, BBC News programmes}
_{1977-1980 Reporter, Thomson Regional Newspapers}

_Education

_{2010 -2012 Visiting Fellow, Reuters Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford}
_{MSc, Birkbeck College, University of London (Politics) 1984}
_{BA (Hons), Reading University, (English) 1977}

Honours and awards

Fellow of the Royal Television Society

Professional memberships

Fellow Royal Society of Arts

Speaking engagements

Frequent speaker at Journalism conferences including the International Journalism Festival, MojoCon, NewsXchange
Panellist at World Economic Forum (2001 - 2006)

2020

Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2020. Advice for journalists covering Covid-19: Welsh NHS confederation. Documentation. Cardiff: School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University.

2018

Allan, S. et al. eds. 2018. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. London and New York: Routledge.
Cushion, S.et al. 2018. Newspapers, impartiality and television news: intermedia agenda-setting during the 2015 uk general election campaign. Journalism Studies 19(2), pp. 162-181. (10.1080/1461670X.2016.1171163)
Sambrook, R. ed. 2018. Global teamwork: the rise of collaboration in investigative journalism. Oxford University, UK: Reuters Institute for the study of JOurnalism.

2016

Cushion, S.et al. 2016. Interpreting the media logic behind editorial decisions: Television News Coverage of the 2015 U.K. General Election Campaign. International Journal of Press/Politics 21(4), pp. 472-489. (10.1177/1940161216664726)
Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2016. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Journalism Studies 17(7), pp. 801-807. (10.1080/1461670X.2016.1199486)
Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2016. Introduction: The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Digital Journalism 4(7), pp. 809-815. (10.1080/21670811.2016.1199469)
Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2016. Introduction: the future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Journalism Practice 10(7), pp. 808-814. (10.1080/17512786.2016.1199485)
Sambrook, R. J. 2016. Journalists at risk undermine us all. [Online]. JOMEC blog: Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Available at: http://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalists-at-risk-undermines-us-all/
Cushion, S. and Sambrook, R. J. eds. 2016. The future of 24 hour news: new directions, new challenges. Peter Lang.
Cottle, S., Sambrook, R. and Mosdell, N. 2016. Reporting dangerously: journalist killings, intimidation and security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-1-137-40670-5)
Sambrook, R. J. 2016. BBC White Paper: the worst has not come to pass, but the leash is tightening. The Conversation 2016(12 May)
Sambrook, R. J. 2016. Panama Papers: the nuts and bolts of a massive international investigation. The Conversation 2016(4 Apr)
Sambrook, R. J. and Nielsen, R. 2016. What is happening to television news?. Discussion Paper. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University. Available at: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/What%20is%20Happening%20to%20Television%20News.pdf

2015

Sambrook, R. J. 2015. Now is the time to decide: what kind of BBC do you want?. The Conversation 2015(16 Jul)
Sambrook, R. J. and Cushion, S. 2015. Election coverage: how the parties and leaders are faring on television. The Guardian 2015(12 Apr)
Sambrook, R. J. 2015. From Buerk to Ushahidi: change in TV reporting of humanitarian crises. In: Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 19. Peter Lang, pp. 53-60.

2009

Sambrook, R. J. 2009. Citizen journalism. In: Owen, J. and Purdey, H. eds. International News Reporting: Frontlines and Deadlines. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 220-242.

2007

Sambrook, R. J. and Mosdell, N. A. 2007. Killing the messenger: report of the global inquiry by the International News Safety Institute into the protection of journalists. Working paper. Belgium: International News Safety Institute.
Sambrook, R. J. ed. 2007. Global voice: Britain's future in international broadcasting. Premium Publishing.

Reporters and Reported lecture series and ad hoc seminars and lectures.

Professor Sambrook’s interests include digital journalism and social media, hyperlocal journalism and international news.