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Steve Hewlett is a Guardian Columnist and broadcasting consultant. He is visiting Professor of Journalism and Broadcast policy at Salford University and a fellow of the Royal Television Society.
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Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging internet site, which limits posts to a maximum of 140 characters which can be sent via text, email or web messaging. It revealed important information about events as they unfolded in Mumbai, sometimes well before the mainstream media. Twitter also became a key resource for the media to find out what was happening. Steve talks to Mumbai Twitterer Asfaq Tapia and the BBC's Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones.
The internet is in danger of running out of domain names – those are the letters after the dot. But ICANN – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – the non-profit organisation that regulates the world wide web has decided to do something about it. They plan to increase the number of available so-called “top level” domain names and to liberalise who can get their hands on them. Dr Paul Tworney is ICANN’s Chief Executive.
As lawyers for Simon Cowell threaten action over the alleged use of a surveillance device on Cowell’s car – how far are the media allowed to go in pursuit of their celebrity quarry? Duncan Lamont is a media lawyer who used to advise The Sunday Mirror.
Rupert Murdoch is arguably one of the most significant figures in global media. He runs News Corp which owns The Sun, News of the World, The Times and satellite broadcaster BSkyB. Not to mention publisher Harper Collins, the US Fox network, substantial media assets in Europe and Asia and his home country Australia. Murdoch is now in his seventies but has just bought Dow Jones and The Wall St Journal for $5.6 billion. Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff tells Steve about his biography of Murdoch.
