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'THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT', THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE

'SEEDCAMP: THE OTHER DRAGON'S DEN', THE OBSERVER

'HIS ONLY VICE IS WOMEN', THE SPECTATOR

'JAMES SILVER ON ADVERTISING', THE GUARDIAN

'AARDMAN: INSIDE A DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION', WIRED


BBC RADIO

THE REPORT: UK EXTREMISM, BBC RADIO 4

'LIBYA'S PROPERTY SPENDING SPREE', BBC RADIO 4

'ATLANTIC CITY', FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, BBC

'GERRYMANDERING', RADIO 4 DOCUMENTARY

'THE SNAPPER KING', FIVE LIVE REPORT


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A GENEROUS MENTION...

VACUOUS PRESS RELEASES (NO 2)

WOODY'S BEST. AND WORST...

UNFREE AT LAST: THE SEQUEL

A WAPPING DECISION...


MEDIA INTERVIEWS

CARL BERNSTEIN, THE GUARDIAN

RICHARD & JUDY, THE GUARDIAN

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: THE INDEPENDENT

JEREMY KYLE, THE GUARDIAN

JON GAUNT, THE GUARDIAN


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BORIS JOHNSON, TOTAL POLITICS

AA GILL, THE GUARDIAN

CLIVE JAMES, THE GUARDIAN

ANDY KERSHAW, THE TIMES

STELIOS, THE INDEPENDENT


BBC RADIO - REVIEWS

'MEMORY WARS' (FIVE LIVE REP) , THE GUARDIAN

'ON DEATH ROW' (FIVE LIVE REP), THE GUARDIAN

'SMOKING GUN' (FIVE LIVE REP), THE OBSERVER


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LATEST ARTICLES:

'After the Tech Incubator Bubble', WIRED magazine
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Across Europe, tech accelerators are offering startups cash and advice, even office space - in exchange for equity. But with so many incubators vying for limited talent, will they ever build breakout businesses? By James Silver

Back in February 2009, Kristian Hiiemaa, then 29, bootstrapped Erply, a business-software startup, with three other developers in Tallinn Estonia.


'How loyalty went social', Times/Raconteur
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
From checkout to check-in: Social networking sites are increasingly being used to build a solid business platform, writes James Silver

When Mark Peatey and business partner Nadim Saad launched CarRush.co.uk in March, in the wake of their successful car finance comparison website FinanceACar.co.uk, they put social at the heart of their loyalty strategy.


'Classroom Disruptor', WIRED magazine
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Classroom Disruptor: the proprietary tablet PC that's changing Russian schools. By James Silver.

School number 1409 lies about ten kilometres north of Moscow city centre, in an exclusive enclave of gated communities. Through the rain-spattered windscreen, designer apartment buildings loom like an architect's brainstorm. One block of flats is shaped like a ship's sails. Another resembles industrial chimneys. A third, a crossword puzzle.


'Up close and personal', Raconteur for The Times
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Gathering data for tailored one to one messaging and smart marketing is rebooting retail on and offline, as James Silver reports.

In the light-filled atrium in the Village, the high-end section of Westfield shopping centre in West London, a young family lingers at a pop-up platform displaying Citroen DS cars, in black and red. After a few moments they move on, past retailers such as Massimo Dutti, NW3 and Zara Home, before disappearing into the crowd of Saturday shoppers.


James Silver James Silver is a feature-writer, who specializes in the media, tech, advertising, business, cultural trends and news/magazine features. He regularly presents current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and has written more than 300 articles for a range of publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, WIRED magazine The Guardian, The Times, The Spectator, Total Politics, The Independent, The Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent on Sunday, Press Gazette, Media Week, BBC News Online and Sky News Online. From 1995-2002, he worked for the BBC. He has presented nearly 100 documentaries and features for Radio 4, 5 Live, the World Service and American Radio Works. In 2000, he was part of the team which won the Sony Gold Award for News.

Interviewees in broadcast and print include: Kofi Annan, Sir Richard Branson, Norman Mailer, Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Michael Gove, David Lammy, Alistair Darling, Lord Tebbit, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Christiane Amanpour, Alexander Shustorovich, Carl Bernstein, Sir Max Hastings, Scott McClennan, Alan Dershowitz, Clive James, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Nick Denton, Mark Thompson, Robert Peston, Piers Morgan, Kelvin MacKenzie, Jeremy Kyle, Richard & Judy, Richard Bacon, Max Clifford and Jade Goody.

James conducts media training sessions for leading media training companies Electric Airwaves and Media Mentor working with household name corporate clients in finance, tourism, aviation, technology, health, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, consumer and education, as well as those in the public sector.

Away from journalism, James is a screenwriter. He has written five screenplays including: Monkey Man, a comic drama now in development with BBC TV Drama, Dead Man Talking, a comedy, thriller The Ridge, Skivvy, a feature based on a true crime story and The Gawk Parade, a children's fantasy feature. He is represented by Sean Gascoine and Hania Elkington at United Agents.
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