Speaker's Summary:
Mr Eric Wishart has been the head of development of AFP’s global English service in Asia since September 2013. He’s responsible for strategic review of AFP’s global English language operations including text, video, graphics and online production.
Mr Wishart has been at AFP since 1984 and his positions have included Middle East English desk head (1992-1996), Asia-Pacific editor (1996-1999), the agency's first non-French editor-in-chief (1999-2005) and Asia-Pacific director based in Hong Kong (2005-2012.) Prior to AFP, he worked in newspapers in Scotland for 10 years including the Johnstone Advertiser, Lennox Herald and Paisley Daily Express, covering news but also writing weekly columns on pop music and motoring.
Eric Wishart will be joining the International Journalism Programme to talk about writing and editing for online and mobile news at B101 between 2 and 5pm on Wednesday, 12 November 2014.