Armando Ianucci is to be Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University, the Media Guardian reports. I’m slightly surprised he’d he sign up for a post sponsored by Rupert Murdoch and News International, but at least he’s smart enough for the job. His radio work is still some of the funniest around, although his Channel 4 show a few years back was significantly lacking. We need more Armandos.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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