Facebook has received a lot of criticism from publishers in recent years. But like it or not, Facebook is increasingly the place people turn for news. This panel is a deliberately provocative, one-si...
Sakhr Al-Makhadhi
Sakhr Al-Makhadhi is Middle East Editor and Acting Executive Producer at AJ+, leading a team that produces some of the most-viewed news videos on the internet.
In 2012, he won the EU's Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalist Award for his coverage of Syria on the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show. And he was nominated for a 2015 One World Media Award for his BBC World Service report on the political party that wants an Islamic state in Britain.
Sakhr has reported from Lebanon and Jordan for the flagship BBC World Service foreign affairs programme From Our Own Correspondent. He’s also been a regular face on BBC television.
Sakhr has been published by Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Channel 4 News and The National. He is a former ITN radio newsreader and reporter. He launched one of the first Syria blogs in 2005, and travelled between London and Damascus regularly until the start of the uprising.
Not everything that’s digital is online, so why is it so hard for the journalism industry (especially in the Middle East) to realise that not everything that’s online is digital. What’s happeni...
Faster, farther, cheaper and certainly no safer, the men and women who cover world events are expected to do more with less, as technology and the news industry's economic struggles have changed what ...
Wars, civil wars and revolutions tend to create multiple truths rather than any one easily-agreeable truth. And the civil war in Syria, now raging since March 2011 (over 100,000 dead and 4 million ref...
