Writing

Industry and Corporate Reports (Sole Author)

• Damian Radcliffe: Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2016  (Available on SlideShare, Scribd, Academia.Edu, UNESCO / United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Media Literacy Portal, or download it here.)
• Damian Radcliffe: Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2015 (also available on Scribd, SlideShare and Academia.edu, + the UNESCO Media Literacy Portal)
• Cardiff University and Nesta: Where are we now? UK hyperlocal media and community journalism in 2015 (Available on Scribd, Academia.edu, Summary Slides)
• Damian Radcliffe: Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2014 (available on Scribd, SlideShare and Academia.edu)
• ictQATAR: Emerging Social Media Platforms in Qatar (Launch slides, Press Release, Media coverage, English Summary, Arabic Summary, (full report), English, Arabic, Sribd, Academia.edu)
• ictQATAR: Full Report: “The attitudes of online users in the MENA region to cybersafety, security and data privacy in MENA” (English,  Arabic, Report launch slides, Launch event write-up, Video of launch lecture at Georgetown University)
• ictQATAR: Report Summary: The attitudes of Internet users in the Middle East to Cybersafety, Security and Data Privacy, May 2014 (English, Arabic, Report launch slides, Infographic [En/Ar])
• ictQATAR: Social Media Use In Qatar: The Story Of 2013 (Slides: English, Arabic, published February 2014)
• ictQATAR: Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2013 (Slides: English, Arabic, published January 2014)
• ictQATAR: Social Media in the MENA – 2012 Review (English, Arabic)
• NESTA:  “Here and Now: hyper-local in the UK”, May 2012
• CSV: Access for All – case studies of working with hard to reach groups, December 2007
• CSV: Transforming Communities – 5 years of achievement, the CSV Action Desks 2001-6, September 2006

Book Chapters, Journals, Industry and Corporate Reports (Contributor)

• Hurst Publishers: “E-Government in the GCC Countries: Promises and Impediments,” in Digital Middle East, State and Society in the Information Age,edited by Mohamed Zayani (to be published, November 2017).
• Comunicação & Educação:  “A importância dos dados para o jornalismo local”  / The Importance of Data for Local Journalism, São Paulo, v. 22, n. 1, p. 85-97, June 2017. ISSN 2316-9125 (in Portuguese).
• Abramis Academic Publishing: “Ten ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump,” in Brexit, Trump and the Media, edited by John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy and Richard Tait. 
• Tow Center for Digital Journalism: Life at small-market newspapers: A survey of over 400 journalists (Co-written with Dr. Christopher Ali, available via CJR, GitHub)
• ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller: 2016 Arab Youth Survey, essay on “The Age of Social” (page 42 of the 2016 white paper)
• Abramis Academic Publishing: Data Journalism: Inside the global future, by Tom Felle (Editor), John Mair (Editor), Damian Radcliffe (Editor)
• Abramis: “The importance of little data: creating an impact at a local level“, book chapter in Data Journalism: Inside the global future
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015, supplementary study looking at the experiences of digital news audiences in Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Turkey (contributing author and researcher, co-author with Esra Doğramacı of an essay about social media in Turkey).
• Abramis Academic Publishing: Chapter on the role of data journalism in US and UK local and community media, in “Data Journalism: Mapping the future”  (buy via: Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk).
• Abramis Academic Publishing: “Hyper-local Media: A Small but Growing Part of the Local Media Ecosystem” chapter for book; “What do we mean by local? The rise, fall and possible rise again of local journalism” – published Sept 2013.
• Routledge: “Innovation challenges in the digital economy” – chapter for a book; Digital World – Connectivity, Creativity and Rights, published July 2013.
• The Democratic Society: Chapter – “Hey! Regulator! Leave those Hyperlocals alone!” – for a publication on Media Regulation & Democracy, 2012.
• Online Networked Neighbourhoods: Guest Paper – “Broadcast Community Media in the UK”, Nov, 2010
• Ofcom: Regional and Local Media in the UK – sections on community and hyper-local media, Sept 2009
• Ofcom: Communications Market Reports – sections on recent market developments (England), 2008-11

Articles

BBC College of Journalism / BBC Academy

• How has social media changed in the Middle East since the Arab Spring?, 14 Mar 17
• Did a robot write this article? The upsides and downsides of automated journalism, 27 Jun 16
• Seven things I learned from visiting 18 New York media companies, 13 Jun 16
• Local data journalism: Five tips and a few key things to consider, 02 Feb 16
• Three challenges to journalism in the Middle East, 30 Nov 15 (Also published on MediaShift, 16 Dec 15)
• Turkey’s relationship with social media: “it’s complicated” (with Esra Doğramacı), 03 Nov 15
• What next for community journalism?, 09 Sep 15
• How can policy makers support hyperlocal media? 25 Jun 15
• Ten ways hyperlocal media contributes to UK journalism, 01 May 15
• Social media catching up with TV as trusted news source in Middle East, 11 Feb 15
• WhatsApp now clear social media leader in Qatar, including for news, 06 Jan 15
• Five key findings about hyperlocal journalism in the UK, 24 Sep 2014
• Managing the legal risks of UGC: Copyright, 02 Sep 2014
• Managing the legal risks of UGC: Key issues to consider, 29 Aug 2014
• Five ways local media can help itself #localjournalism, 08 Jul 2014
• A quick media guide to Qatar and the Middle East, 05 Jun 2014
• Cardiff Uni’s Mooc plus Nesta guide a shot in the arm for hyperlocal, 22 Apr 2014
• Data stories need context for hyperlocal audiences, 4 Feb 2014
• Why smartphone saturation in the Middle East matters, 27 Nov 2013
• Hyperlocal media: A small but growing part of the local media ecosystem, 16 Sep, 2013
• Twitter takes off in Saudi – and other news of social media in the Arab world, 1 Aug, 2013
• Understanding traditional media online in the Middle East, 12 Apr, 2013
• Hyperlocal and happy to be in print, 5 Mar, 2013
• (The) Rise and rise of Arabic on Facebook in Middle East, 8 Jan, 2013
• Why families are getting together less – and other internet trends in the Middle East, 7 Dec, 2012
• The Arab internet is developing its own culture, 6 Nov, 2012
• Walking the local TV tightrope, 17 May, 2012
• News media must embrace Facebook and other social networks, 22 Dec, 2011
• UK tech change: we’re doing the same – just in different ways,  8 Nov, 2011
• The tech times they are a changing – faster than ever,  28 Sep, 2011
• The smartphone revolution, 19 Sep, 2011
• Top ten numbers on social networking versus TV,  26 May, 2011
• #bbcsms: Don’t write off the traditional media yet, 25 May, 2011

The Conversation

• 10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump, 01 Dec 2016
• Experts’ roundtable: The future of journalism in Trump’s America, 29 Nov 2016
• Social media is changing our digital news habits – but to varying degrees in US and UK (with Dr David Levy), 15 Jun 16  [Also appeared in The Epoch Times, Associated Press, Seattle PI, SF Gate, Fairfield Citizen, EconoTimes]   
• Five years after the Arab Spring, how does the Middle East use social media?, 24 Feb 2016 (Also published on The Huffington Post, Your Middle East, Informed Comment, Scroll.in, World Economic Forum, Oximity, Ewan 24)  

The Huffington Post

• Seven Ways Tech Is Changing Journalism and News Consumption, 20 Jun 2016
• Five Tech Priorities for the new UK Government, 26 May 2015
• Why Super-Fast Broadband Matters, 06 Feb 2015
• Ten Ways People Are Using 3D Printing, 08 Dec 2014
• Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviours of Internet Users in the Middle East, 20 Oct 2014
• 10 New Innovations In eCommerce, 17 Sep 2014
• Middle East Tech News: All You Need to Know From the Last Three Months, 12 Aug 2014
• Five Charts Showing How Chat Apps Joined the Social Media Mainstream, 7 Apr 2014
• Understanding Social Media in the Middle East, 10 Feb, 2014
• Children & ICT – The Global Village in Action, 7 Nov, 2013

journalism.co.uk

• 10 format ideas for short-form audio storytelling, 13 Feb 2017
• 20 essential tips for journalism graduates and jobseekers, 5 Jul 2016
• 12 lessons about live radio and building a relationship with the audience, 27 Jan 2016
• The mainstreaming of data reporting and what it means for journalism schools (with August Frank and YingYing Yang), 18 Dec 2015
• 5 predictions for hyperlocal media in 2015, 11 Feb 2015
• 5 ways hyperlocal sites can do more with data, 18 Feb 2014
• ‘Where hyperlocal media should focus its attention’, 16 Sep, 2013
• ‘Hyperlocal media is coming in from the cold’, 1 May, 2013
• Why hyperlocals should not rule out print, 01 May, 2012

JustHere (Qatar)

• “Camel with a camera” – Stefan Lindberg-Jones, Head Guy at Ginger Camel and founder of Think Big Qatar, 26 May, 2013
• 6˚ of Separation: Rashid Al Kuwar, 5 May, 2013
• “Hunger Games in Doha” – Abraham Kamarck, founder of Doha Delivery, March 2013
• 6˚ of Separation: Jassim Yacob Almass, February 2013
• “Tech the talk” – Kapil Bhatia, Founder of the technology website TFour.me, Feb 2013
• 6˚ of Separation: Moe Ramadan,  Jan 2013
• “She’s got the look” – Razan Suleiman on the birth and growth of BYLENS, Jan 2013.

LinkedIn

• How Qatar uses Social Media, 15 Dec 2014
• 15 things you need to know about Internet users in the Middle East, 13 Nov 2014
• 10 of the latest digital developments from the Middle East, 5 Nov 2014
• 10 ways tech is transforming education, 10 Oct 2014
• 10 innovations in eCommerce, 11 Sep 2014
• 10 new digital developments in the Middle East, 6 Aug 2014
• #TechForGood – 10 global examples, 15 Jul 2014
• The first digital World Cup? 10 ways Brazil 2014 kicked previous tournaments into touch, 30 Jun 2014
• How people in the Middle East use social media, 24 May 2014
• If talk is cheap, why are chat apps becoming such big business?, 18 Apr 2014
• Broadband for All? Why we need to work together to ensure that everyone can get online, 27 Mar 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest: 10 things you need to know from the last 3 months, 16 March 2014

The Media Briefing

• Eight of the most surprising slides from Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report, 05 June 2017
• How Generation Z, Millennials (and the rest of us) consume media: 7 key trends, 22 May 2017
• Study: Why publishers need to approach native advertising with caution, 24 Apr 2017
• Six strategic lessons for publishers moving “beyond the article”, 03 Apr 2017
• The global media landscape: in eight charts, 13 Feb 2017
• Innovation in news media: five key findings, 30 Jan 2017
• Five reasons why engagement is so hot right now, 03 Jan 2017
• Seven lessons for publishers from the Dallas Morning News, 19 Dec 2016
• What are the prospects for media companies in the Middle East?, 31 Oct 2016
• Public Service Broadcasting in the UK: 10 key charts, 05 Sept 2016
• PwC’s global media outlook 2016-2020: six key trends, 15 Aug 2016
• The state of news media in the US: what you need to know, 01 Aug 2016
• What Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2016 means for your business, 08 Jun 2016
• Meet the start-up which argues better audience engagement can improve your bottom line, as well as your content, 06 Jun 2016
• Nine trends in US media consumption: in charts, 03 May 2016
• Key insights into newspaper subscription models in the US, 04 Apr 2016
• Has the podcasting renaissance been overstated?, 14 Mar 2016
• Trends in global advertising revenues and media consumption: 8 essential charts, 08 Feb 2016
• 2015 retrospective: 8 major developments to note, 11 Jan 2016
• How Teens and Tweens use media and technology: Six areas to be aware of, 14 Dec 2015
• Seven reasons why Snapchat is so hot right now, 12 Nov 2015
• Innovation lessons from the Cambodia Daily, 11 Aug 2015
• 6 Global Social Media Trends in charts, 29 Jul 2015
• How America watches TV: 8 trends to be aware of, 23 July 2015
• How can crowdfunding support media business models?, 08 Jul 2015 (also republished by the Global Investigative Journalism Network)
• How will global media consumption and advertising change by 2017?, 01 Jul 2015
• The way we were: 10 ways UK media consumption has changed in the last decade, 24 Jun 2015
• Can European start-ups reshape the digital landscape?, 22 Jun 2015
• 9 key takeaways from the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015, 16 Jun 2015
• Are you an attention ninja? What Microsoft’s study into digital media habits means for advertisers, 10 Jun 2015
• 5 must read slides about internet markets in 2015, 05 Jun 2015
• How the BBC is harnessing mobile platforms to engage global audiences, 02 Jun 2015
• Seven internet trends you need to be aware of, 29 May 2015
• What’s in the Secretary of State’s inbox? Ten key media issues for new head of DCMS to consider, 15 May 2015

MediaShift

• Demystifying Media: Five Lessons in Trust and the Media (with Sami Edge), 12 July 2017
• Digital News Report: U.S. Audiences More Willing to Pay for News; Voice-Activated Services the Next Frontier, 22 June 2017
• How the State of Local News Varies (and Doesn’t) Around the World, 31 May 2017
• Slow News: How Taking the Time to Listen and Focus Can Help Journalism’s Future, 19 Apr 2017
• 10 Social Media Lessons from the Middle East in 2016, 29 Dec 2016
• The Upsides (and Downsides) of Automated Robot Journalism, 7 Jul 2016
• How Mic Works to Target ‘Misunderstood’ Millennials, 29 Jun 2016
• 5 Key Findings, 20 Essential Stats: Inside 2016’s Digital News Report, 20 Jun 2016
• 5 Tips and Best Practices for Hyper-Local Data Journalism, 17 May 16
• Five Years After the Arab Spring, What Does Social Media Mean in the Middle East?, 29 Mar 2016
• How and Why Hyper-Local Journalism Looks Different in the U.K. (with Hannah Scarbrough), 21 Mar 2016
• Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Data Journalism, 25 Feb 2016
• The Three Big Challenges to Journalism in the Middle East, 16 Dec 15

nuviun

• Fish Where the Fishes Are: How the BBC is Using Mobile Messaging Apps to Engage Audiences, 23 Jun 2015
• How 4G mobile connections are changing health monitoring, 08 Jun 2015
• Profiles in Digital Health: Andre Persidsky, Prana Tech, 26 May 2015
• 10 new things we learned about digital healthcare from the World Economic Forum, 14 May 2015
• Profiles in Digital Health: FrontlineSMS, 28 Apr 2015
• What Pew’s new global attitudes research means for digital health providers, 09 Apr 2015
• New study assesses the vitality of ehealth websites in the GCC region, 23 Mar 2015
• “You Click, We Care.” Profile in Digital Health: Raouf Khalil, CEO of Mobile Doctors 24/7, 17 Mar 2015
• 3 global lessons for eHealth providers, 10 Mar 2015
• How Japan is leading the way in medical uses for 8K Super Hi-Vision, 03 Mar 2015
• mHealth in the Middle East, 26 Feb 2015
• Profiles in Digital Health, The Indigo Trust, 17 Feb 2015
•  5 major digital health trends we will see in 2015, 03 Feb 2015
• Where next for wearables? 19 Jan 2015

Online Journalism Blog

• Stop being a snob: 10 ways hyperlocal media is contributing to UK journalism, 02 May 2015
• #Hyperlocal Voices: Niall Norbury, Alt Reading, 19, Jan 2015
• Hyperlocal Voices Revisited: Tim Dickens, Brixton Blog and Brixton Bugle, 24 Nov 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices: Jenny Shepherd, Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker, 03 Nov 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices: Mark Baynes, Love Wapping, 01 Oct 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices: Jack Davies, Tongwynlais, 22 Sep 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices: Geraldine Durrant, East Grinstead Online, 28 Aug 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices: Matthew Duffy, Coventry Culture, 18 Jul 2014
• Hyperlocal media and engagement with political parties: what’s been your experience? 22 May 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices: Jamie Summerfield, A Little Bit of Stone, 05 May 2014
• Hyperlocal Voices Revisited: Ray Duffill, Hedon Blog, 6 Dec, 2013
• Hyperlocal Voices: David Williams, MyTown Media, 26 Nov 2013
• Hyperlocal Voices: Annemarie Flanagan, Editor of EalingToday.co.uk, 11 Jul, 2013
• Hyperlocal Voices Revisited: Ross Hawkes, Lichfield Live, 03, Jun, 2013
• Hyperlocal Voices: Geoff Bowen, Sheffield Forum, 23 Mar, 2013
• Hyperlocal Voices: Paul Smith, HU17.net, 25 Feb, 2013
• Hyperlocal Voices: Simon Pipe, St Helena Online, 04 Oct 2012
• Hyperlocal Voices: Matt Brown, Londonist, 16 Aug 2012
• Hyperlocal Voices: Richard Gurner, Caerphilly Observer, 25 Jul 2012
• Hyperlocal Voices: Ed Walker and Ryan Gibson, Blog Preston, 02 Jul 2012
• Hyperlocal Voices: Rachel Howells, Port Talbot MagNet, 22 Jun 2012
• Hyperlocal Voices: Zoe Jewell and Tim Dickens, Brixton Blog, 12 Jun 2012
• Location, Location, Location, 01 Feb, 2012
• 2011: the UK hyper-local year in review, 04 Jan, 2012
• The rise of local media sales partnerships and 19 other recent hyper-local developments, 07 Dec, 2011
• 20 recent hyper-local developments (June-August 2011) – and why hyper-local matters, 15 Sep, 2011

Qatar Today

• Watch what you are watching (April 2014 issue, pages 82-84)
• Top tech trends for 2015 (March 2014 issue, pages 72-74)
• 5 major tech trends from CES (February 2014 issue, pages 71-73)
• An emerging breed of mobile worker, May 2014 issue (Pages 72-73, copy here)
• 14 mobile stories to start 2014, February 2014 issue (Pages 74-75, copy here)
• Why Broadband Matters, January 2014 issue (Pages 14-16)
• We are on the Cloud,  January 2014 issue (Pages 76-78)
• Getting Connected, December 2013 issue (Copy here)
• Health 2.0, September 2013 issue (Cross-post here)
• How technology can make our roads – and us – safer, July 2013 (Copy here)
• Digital Addiction: Time for a Digitox?, June 2013 issue 
• “Tablets are the best medicine” (changes in news consumption), April 2013 issue (Pages 70-72, copy here)
• “Flying Digital” (Airlines and social media), March 2013 issue (Pages 56-58)

Third Sector Magazine (Haymarket Publishing)

• Broadband is essential, 3 Mar, 2009 (PDF)
• Give community radio a try, 27 Jan, 2009 (PDF)
• Expert View: Internet – The flexibility of fast broadband, 8 Oct, 2008 (PDF)
• Expert View: Digital media – Why pay for an expensive TV ad?, 23 Jul, 2008 (No PDF)
• Expert view: Don’t give up on digital just yet, 26 Mar, 2008 (No PDF)
• Expert view: We must change Ofcom’s auction, 6 Feb, 2008 (PDF)
• Expert view: Silver lining to the BBC’s clouds, 14 Nov, 2007 (PDF)
• Expert view: Australia ain’t what it used to be, 19 Sep, 2007 (PDF)
• Expert view: Get ready for television’s D Day, 4 Jul, 2007 (PDF)

Your Middle East

• 10 social media lessons from the Middle East in 2016, 08 Jan 2017
• Five years after the Arab Spring, how does the Middle East use social media? 01 Mar 2016
• How Turkey has embraced digital media for news: 5 trends, 20 Nov 2015
• 5 social media predictions for the Middle East in 2015, 03 Feb 2015
• How Qatar uses social media, 23 Dec 2014
• Understanding attitudes and behaviors of Internet users in the Middle East (INFOGRAPHIC), 20 Oct 2014
• Digital innovations in the Middle East that will solve your traffic jam problem, 1 Sep 2014
• This is the selfie capital of the Middle East…, 7 Aug 2014
• 10 things shaping the MENA digital space in early 2014, 21 Apr 2014
• In one Arab country, 37% surf on their mobiles 6 hours per day…, 4 Mar 2014
• Who’s big on Instagram and what country produces almost half of all Arab tweets?, 20 Feb 2014
• 5 key developments in the MENA digital space, 18 Nov, 2013
• “mHealth” in the Middle East, 28 Jun, 2013

ZDNet (CBS interactive)

• Driverless electric pods: Just part of this startup’s move beyond ride-hailing, 07 Aug 2017
• Middle East cybersecurity: Is region’s big spend aimed at the right targets?, 10 July 2017
• Iran’s tech boom: Amid blocks on Apple, Facebook, Google, new apps are emerging, 12 Jun 2017
• Microsoft’s Middle East chief: ‘Cloud, big data, IoT are only part of the story’, 23 May 2017
• Microsoft’s new Middle East chief: Why cloud and security are our big focus, 10 Apr 2017
• Middle East’s digital makeup: Here are seven key findings on region’s tech trends, 10 Mar 2017
• With tech skills but not enough electricity, meet Gaza’s first startup accelerator, 24 Jan 2017
• Year of upheaval: These are the trends shaping Middle East tech, 03 Jan 2017
• How young Lebanese devs are tackling their country’s Syrian refugee crisis, 15 Dec 2016
• From women in tech to patents: Nine areas where Middle East is winning, and losing, 5 Dec 2016
• Can ‘oil shock’ help kickstart a new tech dawn for Saudi Arabia?, 27 Sep 2016
• Navigating the visa minefield and the lack of women: Silicon Valley lessons from a Middle East entrepreneur, 05 Aug 2016
• IoT, mobile, smart cities: The forces driving Middle East IT spend beyond oil, 13 Jul 2016
• Middle East’s startup leaders: Five ways they’re leading the world, 16 Jun 2016
• Middle East mobile trends: Real picture on where region is heading, 04 May 2016
• Deserts, ravines, ancient ruins: How Google’s Street View is scrambling along in Indiana Jones’ footsteps, 30 Mar 2016
• Blue sea, blue sky thinking: Is Blue House the ultimate tech startup getaway?, 08 Jan 2016
• Mobile in the Arab world: 12 key stats and five predictions, 03 Nov 2015
• Inside Google’s UAE Innovation Hub: ‘Innovation is in the early days, but we see a huge appetite to learn’, 02 Sep 2015
• Why doesn’t the Middle East shop online? 24 Aug 2015
• Where the streets have no name: The Dubai startup shaking up shipping and ecommerce in the Middle East, 15 Jul 2015
• How to get an investor’s attention: Pitch them thousands of feet in the air, 02 Jun 2015
• SME-sy does it: SAP’s plan for big growth from small businesses in the Middle East, 29 Apr 2015
• Abu Dhabi’s first tech accelerator opens its doors with skate wearables, fine art, and ambition, 02 Apr 2015
• Home to everyone from Google to the next big thing: Inside the Middle East’s largest ICT hub, 10 Mar 2015
• ‘Five weeks were just the beginning’: The US scheme to back Middle Eastern, African women in tech, 23 Jan 2015
• From Chile to Seattle to Morocco: One startup’s journey of software development across the globe, 22 Dec 2014
• The three biggest challenges facing startups in the Middle East, 04 Dec 2014
• 10 new insights into mobile in the Middle East, 30 Oct 2014
• Inside Geekcon, the summer camp that celebrates pointless tech, 01 Oct 2014
• Behind the scenes of how Google brought Street View to the Pyramids, 20 Sep 2014
• Five surprising facts about technology takeup in the Middle East, 13 Aug 2014
• Mobile in the Middle East: Can Nokia hang on as top dog in the region?, 17, Jul 2014
• The Middle East’s tech hotspots to watch: Where are the region’s IT leaders?, 03 Jun 2014
• Who’s the world’s fibre broadband leader? Prepare to be surprised, 08 May 2014
• Middle East, Africa’s mobile giants take first steps on sharing networks to cut costs, boost rural coverage, 26 Mar 2014
• Five things you need to know about mobile and the Middle East, 23 Feb 2014
• Inside the $25bn plan to get the Middle East online, 14 Feb 2014
• As the World Cup countdown begins, can Qatar score with raft of new broadband goals?, 6 Jan 2014
• Just off Tahrir Square, first companies move into Cairo’s new tech park, 3 Dec, 2013

Other

• IJNET: 4 revealing takeaways from the GEN Summit 2017, 7th July 2017, 7th July 2017
• IJNET: Potent podcasting: 7 principles to make your audio pop, (Spanish) 26 June 2017
• IJNET: How the Middle East uses social media: 5 key trends, 18 May 2017
• CJR: ‘Respect print and grow digital’: Survey of over 400 local journalists reveals optimism (with Christopher Ali), 10 May 2017
• Letter to Friends (Lviv National Ivan Franko University, Ukraine): The concept of “Slow News” and the future of journalism (translated into Ukrainian), 9th May 2017
• Nieman Lab: If small newspapers are going to survive, they’ll have to be more than passive observers to the news (with Dr Christopher Ali), 02 Feb 2017
• PBS Newshour: Column: 10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump, 02 Jan 2017
• PennLive: We need a renewed focus on local news: Damian Radcliffe, 29 Dec 2016
• Salon: The tech industry and the media can share blame for creating Donald Trump, 07 Dec 2016
• Tow Center (Medium blog): In these uncertain times, local newspapers are more important than ever (with Christopher Ali), 14 Nov 16
• Medium: Eight takeaways from visiting 18 New York media companies in 5 days, 15 Jun 16
• Northwestern University in Qatar, Media Industries in the Middle East, 2016: Closing the Digital Divide Benefits Content Creators, Not Just Consumers, March 2016
• Centre for Community Journalism: Community journalism in the UK: the emerging evidence base, 09 Sept 2015
• Carnegie UK Trust: How can policy makers support UK hyperlocal media?, 22 Jun 2015
• Carnegie UK Trust: 10 ways hyperlocal media is contributing to UK journalism, 27 Apr 2015
• Medium: Eyewitness Media Hub, Private messaging apps could push eyewitness media under the radar, 16 Mar 2015
• Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies blog: 10 things we learned about Social Media in the Middle East in 2014
• Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania: Five Key Findings on How People Use Social Media in Qatar, 24 Feb 2014 (Also published on the World Bank Blog.)
• Street Fight: 5 Tips for the Aspiring Hyperlocal Publisher, 11 Nov 2014
• Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS MediaWire blog): New study offers us fresh insights into the attitudes and behaviors of online users in the Middle East, 21 Oct 2014
• JOMEC blog (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies): Journalism: Some current trends, innovations and unanswered questions, 21 Sep 2014
• JOMEC blog (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies): Understanding the attitudes and behaviors of Internet users in the Middle East and North Africa, 05 Sep 2014
• JOMEC blog (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies): How people in the Middle East use social media and entertainment media, 23 May 2014
• Street Fight: How Hyperlocal Publishers Can Take Advantage of the Data Gold Rush , 02 May 2014
• Digital Qatar: MENA Digital Digest: 15 things you need to know from the last 3 months, 25 Feb 2014
• Knowledge Bridge: MENA news groups need to provide high- and low-tech mobile services, 23 Jul, 2013
• Knowledge Bridge: Survey: Arab Youth consume less news and trust social media as a news source, 27 Jun, 2013
• The International Institute of Communications (IIC): Bridging the digital divide – How Qatar sees it (with Khawar Iqbal), May 2013
• Digital Qatar: How a faster Internet may change how you work, rest and play, 25 Mar 2013
• Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network: Cardiff University launches UK’s first Centre for Community Journalism, 13 Mar, 2013
• Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network: UK Hyperlocal Challenges And Opportunities, 30 Apr, 2012
• Street Fight: Report Identifies Elements of Hyperlocal Success in the U.K. 27 Apr, 2012
• The Democracy Society: Media regulation: leave hyperlocal out of this, April 23, 2012
• Simpl: Ten things you need to know about over 65s and the internet, May 24, 2011
• JamsBio.com: (Music Memories website later bought by MTV), Launch Writer, 52 by-lines, 2008
• Ofcom: super-fast broadband blog, 6 articles, Autumn 2008
• National Media Museum: “Archive” magazine, article on TV viewing habits, Sept 2008
• Digital One: Buyer’s Guide to DAB Digital Radio (writer and reviewer), Summer 2004
• Guardian: Higher Education supplement, 4 by-lines, Summer 1998

Research Slides

• Social Media in 2016 – 10 trends to note, Mar 2016
• Where are we now? UK hyperlocal and community media in 2015, Sep 2015
• “How can hyperlocal media create active and digitally inclusive communities?“ Jun 2015
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 16: Q4 2014 (English, Arabic), Dec 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 16: Big Data – 10 current and future uses (English, Arabic), Dec 2014
• How Qatar uses WhatsApp, Snapchat and other social media, Dec 2014
• Where next for mobile in the Middle East?, Nov 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 15: 10 innovations in 3D Printing (English, Arabic), Nov 2014
• Attitudes to Cybersafety and Online Privacy in the Middle East, Sept 2014
• Hyperlocal Funding and Sustainability, Sept 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 15: Q3 2014 (English, Arabic), July 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 14: Q2 2014 (English version, Arabic version), Apr 2014
• Reinventing Journalism: Trends, Innovations and Unanswered Questions
• Hyperlocal 101: Part Three, 10 examples of news and storygathering techniques
• Tech Top 10, Issue 14: 10 Back to School Technologies (English, Arabic), Sept 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 13: 10 innovations in eCommerce (English, Arabic), Aug 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 12: 10 examples of innovation for social good (English, Arabic), July 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 11: 10 World Cup innovations (English, Arabic), June 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 10: 10 Tech Start-ups from the Middle East (English, Arabic), May 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 9: 10 Road and Travels Apps (English, Arabic), April 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 13: Q1 2014 (English, Arabic), April 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 8: Chat Apps (English, Arabic), March 2014
• Tech Top 10, Issue 7: 2013 Look back, 2014 Look forward (English, Arabic),  Jan 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 12:  Social Media in Qatar during 2013 special (English, Arabic) Feb 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 11: Social Media in 2013 special (English, Arabic), Jan 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 10: Q4 2013 (English, Arabic), Jan 2014
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 9: Q3 2013 (English, Arabic), Oct 2014
• Hyperlocal 101: Part Two, Production Models & Typology, Aug 2013
• Hyperlocal 101: Part One, 10 hyperlocal business models, July 2013
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 8: Q2 2013 (English, Arabic)
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 7: Q1 2013 (English, Arabic)
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 6: Social Media in 2012 special
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 5: Nov/Dec 2012 (English, Arabic)
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 4: Sept/Oct 2012 (English, Arabic)
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 3: August 2012
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 2: July 2012
• Middle East Digital Digest, Issue 1: June 2012
• Hyper-Local Insights, Nov-Dec 2011, 12 Jan, 2012
• The UK hyper-local year in review, 2011, 02 Jan, 2012
• UK and US Hyper Local Insights: Sept-Oct 2011 – 20 key developments, 17 Nov, 2011
• Hyper-Local insights: 20 key developments, June – August 2011 , 5 Sep, 2011
• Hyper-Local definitions and trends, 8 Jul, 2011
• Hyper-Local insights: 20 key developments, April – May 2011, 16 Jun, 2011
• Hyper-Local insights: 20 key developments, February – March 2011, 15 Apr, 2011
• 21st Century News, 01 Apr, 2011
• Hyper-Local insights: 20 key developments, December 2010 – January 2011, 4 Feb, 2011
• Introduction to Hyper-Local media: full 12 inch version, 2 Dec, 2010