LSE/BBC Panorama Coverage
Print
Pyongyang threatens to publish data on students
i (The paper for today), 16/04/2013, p.9, Jonathan Brown; George Henton
Students who acted as cover for BBC Panorama’s covert investigation in North Korea received threats from the dictatorship to publish their personal data and some fear their careers could be harmed after it emerged they took part in the secret filming.
North Korea issues threats to students as BBC airs controversial documentary
The Independent, 16/04/2013, p.9, Jonathan Brown; George Henton
The BBC’s new director general, Lord Hall, who last week refused to pull the programme, North Korea Uncovered, after pleas from LSE Chairman Peter Sutherland, is now expected to face a grilling by MPs on the Culture and Media select committee over who authorised the film and why written consent had not been obtained from those taking part. Lord Hall is also likely to be asked to produce written evidence confirming the BBC’s claims that the students were fully aware of the risks of detention and possible expulsion by entering the highly repressive state with journalists in tow before setting out from London on the £2,000 trip.
The LSE has form in bogus trips to totalitarian regimes
Evening Standard, 15/04/2013, p.16, Unattributed
THE London School of Economics has condemned Panorama for using its students as cover during a visit to North Korea which took place in March in the name of the Grimshaw Club.
Maverick who shouted down Scientology
The Times, 16/04/2013, p.13, Kaya Burgess
Educated at the London School of Economics, Sweeney says he started out as a “worm” writing the shopping guide at the Sheffield Telegraph before joining The Observer, where he reported from Romania, Algeria, Iraq, Chechnya, Sierra Leone and Bosnia. He joined the BBC in 2001.
BBC deceived us about risks of North Korea trip, says student
The Times, 16/04/2013, p.13, Ben Webster
The BBC “duped” students it used as a cover to enter North Korea by deceiving them about the level of risk, according to a woman on the trip. The corporation misled students into thinking the trip was organised by a London School of Economics (LSE) society and withheld vital information until it was too late for them to change their minds, she said. They now fear retaliation after they received an e-mail from a representative of North Korea threatening to publish their names and other personal details.
The land of Disney and Stalin
The Times, 16/04/2013, p.13, Richard Lloyd Parry
After days of bloodcurdling rhetoric, from the Korean People's Army, the BBC and the London School of Economics, you could be forgiven for concluding that North Korea is a place where only the most recklessly brave would dream of setting foot. I am one of thos men of iron who has risked his immortal soul to enter – not once, but six times.
Panorama Drama
The Times, 16/04/2013, p.2, Unattributed
The LSE may sound a little precious in protesting about its reputation being dented by the BBC given its own behavious in awarding a PhD to the Libyan gadabout and generous LSE donor Saif Gaddafi. It will certainly now have to think more deeply before sending students to North Korea when such students will inevitably, given Pyongyang’s paranoia, be monitored as potential troublemakers.
N Korea 'threats'
The Sun, 16/04/2013, p.6, Unattributed
STUDENTS whose trip to North Korea was used by the BBC as a cover for secret filming have been threatened by the rogue regime. A source at the London School of Economics said they received menacing letters warning of "consequences in the future". The revelation fuelled criticism of the BBC over the eight-day trip set up by Panorama.
LSE students contradict BBC claims over North Korea documentary
The Guardian, 16/04/2013, p.6, Josh Halliday; tara Conlan
The BBC's claims that it received the informed consent of London School of Economics students who accompanied its undercover journalist John Sweeney on a trip to North Korea were directly contradicted yesterday by some of the individuals concerned. Several of those who found themselves with the Panorama reporter said that they only became aware that three BBC journalists were embedded with the group once they got to the country’s capital, Pyongyang.
Embarrassed Shami decides to give up on the LSE
The Daily Telegraph, 16/04/2013, p.8, Tim Walker
The London School of Economics has had few more doughty champions than Shami Chakrabarti, but its alumna has not uttered a single word about the row that it has become embroiled in with the BBC over a trip that its students made to North Korea with an undercover reporter.
BBC chief under fire over North Korea film
The Daily Telegraph, 16/04/2013, p.13, Graeme Paton
It also emerged that Lord Hall, who only took up the post in the last month, would be ordered before a cross-party committee of MPs to answer charges that the corporation put undergraduates at risk over the affair. Yesterday a row was escalating between the BBC and the London School of Economics over the controversial Panorama expose on life within the "most rigidly controlled nation on Earth". A three-strong BBC team, led by the reporter John Sweeney, travelled to North Korea posing as members of the LSE’s Grimshaw Club.
BBC exploited me, says girl student in North Korea trip
Daily Mail, 16/04/2013, p.6, Vanessa Allen; Paul Revoir
A STUDENT used as a 'human shield' by a Panorama journalist inside North Korea yesterday accused the BBC of exploiting and betraying her. The London School of Economics student said she was put in danger by the broadcaster and claimed she was only told the truth about its undercover film crew after an alcohol-fuelled night out in Beijing.
Betrayed by the BBC
Daily Mail, 16/04/2013, p.14, Unattributed
In cases involving overwhelming public interest, there may even be an excuse for subterfuge involving risks to third parties. But this can only ever be with their fully informed consent, freely given. Manifestly, these conditions were not met when the BBC deceived a group of students from the London School of Economics, the youngest aged 18, into providing cover for the team filming last night's Panorama documentary on the brutal dictatorship of North Korea.
Students put at risk for an ego-boosting stunt and why we need a total purge of BBC top brass
Daily Mail, 16/04/2013, p.14, Max Hastings
There is still argument about exactly who knew what when, but it seems certain that the London School of Economics, which lent its name to the trip, knew nothing of the undercover TV operation until it was over. It is unlikely that the tour party understood the grave risks they ran for the greater glory of Panorama…It is almost impossible to believe the Panorama team has achieved anything of significance, beyond using a secret TV camera in a country where this is forbidden.
BBC shows North Korea probe 'that put Britons in peril'
Daily Express, 16/04/2013, p.15, Mark Reynolds
The decision to broadcast the documentary in the face of angry objections from the London School of Economics had gone “right to the top”, the corporation insisted. Ceri Thomas, head of news programmes, had rejected claims that students were forced to run unacceptable risks when three BBC journalists in their party filmed undercover in the secretive communist state. The journalists, including the veteran investigative reporter John Sweeney, travelled with the group of students from the LSE to gather material for the programme. Asked how high up the BBC chain authorisation for the programme had gone, Mr Thomas said: “This went right to the top.”
Essential Subterfuge
The Guardian, 16/04/2013, p. Robin Lustig
There is an unmistakable whiff of "I should have been told" about the outraged reaction from LSE bosses – but let's be clear: if they were surprised, I doubt the North Koreans were. There's a long history of reporters pretending to be something they're not in countries where they're not welcome. Many years ago, I visited Cuba with a group of supposed "travel writers", most of whom were more interested in finding anti-Castro dissidents than a beach resort.
TV/Radio
BBC Radio 4 (15/04/2013)
Today
Sir Peter Sutherland was interviewed and called for the Panorama film not to be broadcast. BBC News Head of Programmes Ceri Thomas responded and defended the film.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rv8ds| (1:50:00 to 1:57:45)
BBC News 24 (15/04/2013)
News
Sir Peter Sutherland was interviewed in the studio and again called for the film not to be broadcast.
“They were brought in by the BBC, and with the BBC, into probably the most dangerous place on the planet today, namely North Korea on the basis of providing a cover for a filming, which will be aired tonight by the BBC. This was a deception, because they were never told that there would be filming. They were initially told that one journalist would be going with them and naturally believed that this was a print journalist. Subsequent to the visit, they discovered that they were going with a film camera to conduct what amounted to a clandestine analysis of what was happening in North Korea, which may be a very good thing in itself, but it is not a good thing to bring students in these circumstances. Unfamiliar with and unprepared for what could be a very substantial risk. And we really think that this is damaging to academic freedom and integrity, apart from the particular interests of the students and their parents, some of whom are deeply disturbed by what has happened.”
BBC 1 (15/04/2013)
BBC News at One
The LSE’s calls for the Panorama documentary to be pulled and the BBC’s response were explained and explored
Also featured on ITV1, Sky News, Channel 4 News, the BBC regional Radio Network, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 1,
CNN International (15/04/2013)
Rolling News
The objections of the LSE and the defence from the BBC were explained along with comments recorded on 14/04/13 from Alex Peters-Day and Ceri Thomas.
BBC Parliament (15/04/2013)
House of Commons Live
The Foreign Secretary William Hague was asked about the Panorama film and whether it damaged his diplomatic efforts with North Korea. He called it “a matter for the LSE and the BBC to consider”.
Online
BBC defends Panorama programme
ITN (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The decision to go ahead with a controversial BBC documentary about North Korea went "right to the top", the corporation's head of news programming has insisted.
http://www.itn.co.uk/UK/73675/bbc-defends-panorama-documentary-on-north-korea|
BBC decision 'regrettable'
ITN (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The corporation plans to show a Panorama report about life in the secretive communist country on Monday, filmed by a BBC crew working undercover among a group of students from the London School of Economics (LSE). The LSE claims key information was withheld from students, with the university authorities unaware until last week that the BBC had used the ten-person party as a smokescreen.
http://www.itn.co.uk/UK/73661/bbc-refuses-to-drop-panorama-film|
LSE: BBC's Panorama decision 'extremely regrettable'
Telegraph (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
Sir Peter Sutherland, the LSE chairman, said that the BBC "were never given full and informed consent" from the students to carry out the filming. "They did not know that they were part of a covert action to run a serious, hour-long programme on the BBC with covert filming," Sir Peter added. "The course of action that we sought...was the withdrawal of the programme. That has been refused...and it's extremely regrettable."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9994533/LSE-BBCs-Panorama-decision-extremely-regrettable.html|
LSE criticises BBC over North Korea Panorama programme - video
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2013/apr/15/lse-bbc-north-korea-panorama-video|
Some LSE students 'not fully informed' on N Korea risks
ITV.com (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
With the new director-general Tony Hall making the decision that the Panorama programme should go ahead despite what the London School of Economics want. He is in front of MPs next week and we know that they want to question Mr Hall about this incident and some are saying that there are some problems for the BBC in what has happened over this.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-04-15/some-lse-students-not-fully-informed
-on-n-korea-risks/|
LSE students on North Korea trip with BBC team 'have received threats'
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Josh Halliday Jason Deans
The director of the London School of Economics has revealed that some of the university's students who travelled to North Korea with BBC Panorama journalist John Sweeney have received threats from the communist state since returning to the UK. Craig Calhoun, speaking to the Guardian from New York, also said that the LSE had heard from other students who are being advised to cancel upcoming foreign trips, after Sweeney controversially used what was ostensibly an academic visit as cover to film a Panorama undercover documentary in North Korea that the BBC is adament will be broadcast on Monday evening.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/15/lse-students-north-korea-bbc|
Email on LSE students' North Korea trip - full text
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
Full text of email sent from the Grimshaw Club to its members advertising the North Korea trip.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/15/lse-north-korea-trip|
BBC 'must publish evidence over N Korea film'
Telegraph (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The corporation’s new director-general was urged to publish all evidence surrounding claims that the BBC obtained full permission from university students before using them as “human shields” to get into the secretive state. It also emerged that Lord Hall – who only took up his post earlier this month – would be ordered before a cross-party committee of MPs to answer charges that the corporation put undergraduates at serious risk over the affair.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9995539/BBC-must-publish-
evidence-over-LSE-North-Korea-film.html|
Students on BBC's North Korea trip 'have received threats' from rogue state as Corporation says decision to go ahead with Panorama film 'went right to the top'
Mail Online UK (Web), 15/04/2013, Vanessa Allen
North Korea has threatened to make public all passport data and personal information of students who travelled to the country with an undercover BBC team, it emerged today. The communist state fired off a furious e-mail to students of the London School of Economics (LSE) after it discovered they had entered the country with Panorama reporter John Sweeney who had posed as a history professor to film an expose. After arriving back in the UK, they were contacted by a representative of the North Korean government complaining that 'Mr John Paul Sweeney is not an LSE History Professor as declared, but a BBC journalist that joined your LSE students group undercover.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309255/Panorama-Students-BBCs-North-Korea-trip-received-threats.html|
Is the BBC right to broadcast the North Korea Panorama documentary?
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The BBC is to go ahead with the airing of a documentary on North Korea, despite claims from London School of Economics that its students were put at risk. Is it right to do so?
Results (9:06, 16/04/13) YES:65%, NO:35%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/poll/2013/apr/15/panorama-bbc-north-korea
-poll|
Ex-BBC News chief agreed to Panorama trip to North Korea with LSE group
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Jason Deans
Fran Unsworth, BBC head of newsgathering, was involved in signing off on John Sweeney's controversial undercover trip to North Korea last months. Unsworth and David Jordan, the BBC of the director of editorial standards and policy who became embroiled in the Savile crisis at the corporation last autumn, were the most senior corporation executives to sign off on the Panorama plan to get Sweeney into North Korea to film covertly using a trip by London School of Economics students as cover to gain entry to the communist state, the Guardian understands.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/15/bbc-panorama-north-korea-helen-boaden-lse|
Academics criticise BBC N Korea film
BBC (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
Universities have accused the BBC of putting the integrity of academics at risk with an edition of Panorama which was filmed secretly in North Korea. Three BBC journalists used a trip by a group of London School of Economics students as cover, without getting their full consent, the LSE has said. Universities UK said the move may have damaged "universities' reputations overseas", which rely on transparency.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22156251|
BBC criticised over "reckless" secret filming in North Korea
Reuters UK (Web), 15/04/2013, Peter Griffiths
The new head of Britain's BBC stumbled into a new threat to its journalistic reputation on Monday after its decision to use university students as a cover to film secretly in North Korea was branded "reckless and irresponsible". Less than two weeks after taking up his post at an institution in turmoil after a sexual abuse scandal, BBC Director General Tony Hall faced accusations that his flagship news programme had used British students as "human shields".
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/korea-north-britain-idUKL5N0D23MF20
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Stuck Inside of London with the Pyongyang Blues Again
Mail Online UK (Web), 15/04/2013, Peter Hitchens
But I sort of sympathise with him, up to a point, in his row with the London School of Economics about whether he should have entered the country in this way. It is very difficult for a journalist to get into North Korea, because the tour companies which go there won’t take you. They are, quite reasonably, afraid they will lose business if they do.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/04/stuck-inside-of-london-with-the-pyongyang-blues-again.html|
Former Times editor James Harding to be next Director of BBC News
The Independent (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
He is also set to arrive in a further period of turbulence at the BBC, with questions being raised over the methods used by the flagship Panorama programme in two separate documentaries, including one due to be shown tonight after undercover filming in North Korea. The London School of Economics demanded that the programme be withdrawn because some of its students were used as cover to fool the North Korean authorities
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/former-times-editor-james-
harding-to-be-next-director-of-bbc-news-8574234.html|
Review: Panorama - North Korea Undercover documentary
The Independent (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The BBC defended its Panorama film about North Korea as being “strongly in the public interest”. One certainly imagines a lot more members of the public were interested after the row over the methods employed in filming it, which included its excitable reporter John Sweeney growing a beard and — if you buy the line of attack mounted by academics at the London School of Economics — using innocent students as camouflage.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/review-panorama--north-korea-undercover-documentary-8574282.html|
BBC defends secret North Korea trip
Morning Star Online (Web), 16/04/2013, Unattributed
BBC bosses were forced to defend the making of a documentary about North Korea today after three students complained journalists used them as human shields. The London School of Economics students were part of a 10-person study trip which unwittingly provided cover to BBC journalist John Sweeney and two camera men who were shooting footage for a Panorama programme which aired last night.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/content/view/full/131729|
BBC shows North Korea probe `that put Britons in peril?
Daily Express (Web), 16/04/2013, Unattributed
Ceri Thomas, head of news programmes, had rejected claims that students were forced to run unacceptable risks when three BBC journalists in their party filmed undercover in the secretive communist state. The journalists, including the veteran investigative reporter John Sweeney, travelled with the group of students from the LSE to gather material for the programme. Asked how high up the BBC chain authorisation for the programme had gone, Mr Thomas said: “This went right to the top.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/392254/BBC-shows-North-Korea-probe-that-put-Britons-in-peril|
Unscrupulous BBC must cancel broadcast, says LSE chairman
The Times Online, 15/04/2013, p.1, Unattributed
Sir Peter Sutherland, the chairman of the London School of Economics, today redoubled his demands that the BBC should cancel tonight’s broadcast of a Panorama programme filmed undercover in North Korea.
Risking students' lives in North Korea was worth it, says BBC
Telegraph (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The broadcaster has faced a barrage of criticism after sending a crew to work undercover in the secretive communist country among a group of students from the London School of Economics (LSE). The LSE claims key information was withheld from students, who were used "as a human shield" and placed in danger.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9994176/Risking-students-lives
-in-North-Korea-was-worth-it-says-BBC.html|
BBC refuses to drop North Korea documentary despite claims it put students at risk
Evening Standard (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The corporation plans to show a Panorama report about life in the secretive communist country tonight, filmed by a BBC crew working undercover among a group of students from the London School of Economics (LSE). The LSE claims key information was withheld from students, who were used "as a human shield" and placed in danger.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/decision-to-go-ahead-with-north-korea-
investigation-went-right-to-top-of-bbc-8572825.html|
Decision on BBC's North Korea documentary 'went right to the top'
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Jason Deans
The decision to go ahead with a controversial BBC documentary about North Korea went "right to the top", the corporation's head of news programmes has said. Ceri Thomas made the comment as he rejected claims that students had been forced to run unacceptable risks during undercover filming of the investigation. A BBC crew was embedded in a group from the London School of Economics (LSE) to gather material for the Panorama report, due to be aired on Monday evening.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/15/bbc-north-korea-panorama-lse|
Risking students' lives for Panorama was worth it, says unrepentant BBC as it insists North Korea documentary will go ahead
Mail Online UK (Web), 15/04/2013, Vanessa Allen
A senior BBC executive said that it was worth risking students' lives by sending an undercover reporter with them on a trip to North Korea for a controversial documentary. Ceri Thomas, the corporation's head of news planning, said the decision to go ahead with the airing of tonight's programme went 'right to the top' as he rejected claims that students from the London School of Economics had been forced in to taking unacceptable risks during the investigation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309255/Panorama-Risking-students-lives-worth-says-unrepentant-BBC-insists-North-Korea-documentary-ahead.html|
Documentary approval 'went to top'
Daily Star (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
The decision to go ahead with a controversial BBC documentary about North Korea went "right to the top", the corporation's head of news programming said. Ceri Thomas made the comment as he rejected claims that students had been forced to run unacceptable risks during undercover filming of the investigation.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/latestnews/view/309267/Documentary-approval-went-to
-top-/|
Documentary approval 'went to top'
MSN UK (Web), 15/04/2013, Unattributed
Sir Peter Sutherland, chairman of LSE's court of governors, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that some of the party had not been fully informed about the plans before leaving. "I am amazed that the case is being made that in some way these students, misled, going into a most dangerous place - perhaps the most dangerous place on Earth - should be forced to allow a programme to take place that they oppose," he said. Three students have since complained and the BBC has agreed to pixelate their images. But Sir Peter suggested that other representatives from the university could now be at risk when travelling abroad.
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/documentary-approval-went-to-top|
The BBC versus the LSE
The Economist (Web), 16/04/2013, Unattributed
The college maintains the students were given variable accounts before leaving Britain about the nature of the journalism involved and the attendant risk. As a result of the operation, says Craig Calhoun, the LSE’s director, some of those who went on the trip have received threats. He fears it will make future forays to sensitive destinations “problematic”. That the involvement of a journalist was potentially difficult for the other travellers is not in doubt. But investigative journalism is rarely a comfortable business: nor can it always be pursued without annoyance to others.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/04/investigative-journalism-bbc?fsrc
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BBC in row over reporter traveling with student group
UPI - Apr 16 at 5:11 BST
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2013/04/16/BBC-in-row-over-reporter-
traveling-with-student-group/UPI-86551366085040/|
TV Pick: North Korea Undercover
GQ Magazine UK - Apr 15 at 18:08 BST
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-04/15/panorama-bbc
-north-korea-documentary|
BBC refuses to back down in row over N. Korea film (AFP)
West Australian - Apr 15 at 14:28 BST
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/16748221/bbc-refuses-to-back-down-in-row-over-n-korea-film/|
BBC tactics in covering N Korea is criticised
Uzbekistan News - Apr 16 at 3:04 BST
http://www.uzbekistannews.net/index.php/sid/213864129/scat/bf053b50c46383e0|
BBC under fire for clandestine documentary
CHINAdaily - Apr 16 at 2:23 BST
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-04/16/content_16409584.htm|
Documentary was worth risking lives for: BBC
New Delhi Pioneer - Apr 16 at 1:52 BST
http://www.dailypioneer.com/world/documentary-was-worth-risking-lives-for-bbc.html|
BBC says it was aware group could face arrest
Times of India - Apr 16 at 1:10 BST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/BBC-says-it-was-aware-group-could-
face-arrest/articleshow/19571488.cms|
BBC Tactics in Covering North Korea Are Faulted
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Apr 15 at 23:17 BST
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/bbc-tactics-in-covering-north-
korea-are-faulted-683587/|
BBC Filming on North Korea Trip Sparks Anger
Voice of America - Henry Ridgwell - Apr 15 at 22:50 BST
http://www.voanews.com/content/bbc-covert-filming-on-north-korea-trip-sparks-anger/1641962.html|
LSE anger at BBC undercover DPRK report
CNTV - Apr 15 at 22:04 BST
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20130416/100369.shtml|
BBC Journalists Pose as Students for N. Korea Documentary
Capital.gr - Apr 15 at 20:13 BST
http://english.capital.gr/News.asp?id=1774460|
N. Korea documentary worth risk to students, BBC says
MSN News - Apr 15 at 19:43 BST
http://news.msn.com/world/n-korea-documentary-worth-risk-to-students-bbc-says|
Undercover film about Nth Korea to be broadcast
Radio New Zealand - Apr 15 at 18:53 BST
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/132877/undercover-film-about-nth-korea-to-be-broadcast|
Top British college slams BBC's covert trip to North Korea
Japan Times - Apr 15 at 18:05 BST
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/asia-pacific/top-british-college-slams-bbcs-covert-trip-to-north-korea/|
LSE criticises BBC over North Korea Panorama programme - video
Philippine Times - Apr 15 at 15:51 BST
http://www.philippinetimes.com/index.php/sid/213850467/scat/2411cd3571b4f088|
LSE claims students threatened over BBC N. Korea film
Yahoo! News Australia - Apr 15 at 15:37 BST
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/16748221/lse-claims-students-
threatened-over-bbc-n-korea-film/|
BBC death song and North Korea doc rows erupt on social media
YouGov - Apr 15 at 13:57 BST
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/04/15/bbc-death-song-and-north-korea-doc-rows-
erupt-soci/|
British university attacks BBC over covert North Korea trip
Turkish Daily - Apr 15 at 13:39 BST
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/british-university-attacks-bbc-over-covert-north
-korea-trip.aspx?pageID=238&nid=44939&NewsCatID=351|
BBC to air North Korea documentary despite criticisms from university
TheJournal.ie - Apr 15 at 13:36 BST
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/bbc-north-korea-panorama-870521-Apr2013/|
BBC Criticised For Risking Welfare Of N Korean Guides
Huffington Post UK - Jessica Elgot - Apr 15 at 12:59 BST
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/15/north-korea-bbc-panorama_n_3083538.html?utm_hp_ref=uk|
Row over BBC's N Korea documentary
Brisbane Times - Apr 15 at 11:42 BST
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-world/row-over-bbcs-n-korea-documentary-20130415-2hw87.html|
La BBC emitió programa sobre Corea del Norte pese a reclamos de académicos (translate)
BBC Mundo - Apr 16 at 6:38 BST
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2013/04/130415_corea_norte_bbc_
programa_lav.shtml|
Polémica por reportero de la BBC infiltrado en Corea del Norte (translate)
CNN Chile - Apr 16 at 2:42 BST
http://cnnchile.cl/noticia/2013/04/15/polemica-por-reportero-de-la-bbc-infiltrado-en-corea-del-norte|
BBC tetap tayangkan film dokumenter Korea Utara (translate)
ABC Radio Australia - Apr 16 at 1:50 BST
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/indonesian/2013-04-16/bbc-tetap-tayangkan-film-dokumenter-korea-utara/1116768|
Kritika britské BBC kvůli kontroverznímu natáčení v Severní Koreji nepolevuje (translate)
Czech Radio - Apr 16 at 1:41 BST
http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/evropa/_zprava/kritika-britske-bbc-kvuli-kontroverznimu-nataceni-v-severni-koreji-nepolevuje--1200446|
Sairbeen BBC Urdu (15th April 2013)
Pakistan TV.TV - Muhammad - Apr 15 at 21:47 BST
http://www.pakistantv.tv/2013/04/15/sairbeen-bbc-urdu-15th-april-2013/#sthash.5vCUlrtQ.dpbs|
Nordkorea Reportage BBC - Student undercover (translate)
Frankfurter Rundschau Startseite - Apr 15 at 21:45 BST
http://www.fr-online.de/medien/nordkorea-reportage-bbc-student-undercover,1473342,22377184.html|
Diktatoren mit Westbildung (translate)
Deutsche Welle - Apr 15 at 20:39 BST
http://www.dw.de/diktatoren-mit-westbildung/a-16741097|
La BBC critiquée pour un reportage clandestin en Corée du Nord (translate)
Le Monde - Apr 15 at 19:11 BST
http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/04/15/infiltre-la-bbc-critiquee-pour-un-
reportage-clandestin-en-coree-du-nord/|
BBC diminta cabut program (translate)
BBC Indonesia - Apr 15 at 17:08 BST
http://www.bbc.co.uk/indonesia/majalah/2013/04/130415_pendidikan_panorama
_korut.shtml|
Comment la BBC s'est infiltrée en Corée du Nord (translate)
La Libre - Apr 15 at 12:36 BST
http://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/article/809577/comment-la-bbc-s-est-
infiltree-en-coree-du-nord.html|
Corea del Norte rechaza plan de diálogo de Seúl (translate)
Los Tiempos - Apr 15 at 11:41 BST
http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/internacional/20130415/corea-del-
norte-rechaza-plan-de-dialogo-de-seul_209346_449227.html|
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Thatcher's economic legacy
New Statesman (Web), 15/04/2013, Ann Pettifor
As the debate over her legacy rages, economists are loud and united in the claim that Thatcher "fixed" the economy. Economists like Professor van Reenan of the LSE make vague assertions about improvements to the supply side, or to competitiveness. These hark back to arguments deployed by the original monetarists – Samuel Brittan of the FT;
http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2013/04/thatchers-economic-legacy|
Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics | Leo Hickman
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/04/2013, Leo Hickman
On how he chooses where to spend his foundation's money: We don't fund the hard science of solar technology. That would take hundreds of millions. But what we are funding is bringing together the data and put it together and representing it conveniently to the outside world. And we want to train people with a good range of skills so they can produce good PhDs for the future at LSE and Imperial.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/15/jeremy-grantham-
population-china-climate|
Laos’s Mammoth Train Project a Fast Track to Debt and Despair
Time - Charlie Campbell - Apr 16 at 5:18 BST
a gamble on rising commodity prices," explains Dr. Tim Forsyth, a lecturer on international development at the London School of Economics who specializes in Southeast Asia. The idea is that Laos’s mineral...
http://world.time.com/2013/04/15/laoss-mammoth-train-project-a-fast-track-to-
debt-and-despair/|
Sweet and Sour Mahnto
New Delhi Pioneer - Apr 16 at 3:05 BST
at Lucknow. Ours was a family embroiled in the freedom movement. My father, ZA Ahmed, a PhD from London School of Economics, was secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru and made Urdu mandatory in our household, bringing...
http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity/sweet-and-sour-manto.html|
Former Commonwealth human rights head becomes Kaleidoscope Trust chair
Pink News - Scott Roberts - Apr 15 at 18:50 BST
the London based charity. Dr Sen is currently deputy director of the Institute of Public Affairs at the London School of Economics. She was previously director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Amnesty...
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/04/15/former-commonwealth-human-rights-
head-becomes-kaleidoscope-trust-chair/|
Bloomberg economist at annual conference
Times of Malta - Apr 15 at 12:43 BST
at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a currency strategist. He holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. Mr Powell maintains: “It’s not just the US economy that is throttling growth back...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130414/business-news/bloomberg-economist-at-annual-conference.465560|
Werk belangrijke oorzaak van gebrek aan lichaamsbeweging (translate)
Zita.be - Apr 15 at 11:51 BST
op peil te houden. Dat is de conclusie van een onderzoek van de organisatie Nuffield Health en de London School of Economics (LSE) bij Britse werknemers. De onderzoekers merken dan ook op dat werkgevers een...
http://www.zita.be/lifestyle/2347415_werk-belangrijke-oorzaak-van-gebrek-aan-lichaamsbeweging.html|