Tom Loosemore has agreed to join Channel 4 to head up the 4iP project.
Tom has an outstanding range of experience in public service new media, and has a huge passion for the areas which 4iP is setting out to explore. His various stints as both a thinker and doer include Ofcom, the BBC, the Cabinet Office and mysociety. He’s also got experience of both internet start ups and larger media companies. If you want to see some of the projects he’s been involved with, take a look at upmystreet, theyworkforyou and showusabetterway.
He will be joining in late September, and accelerating the momentum that we’ve made behind the scenes over the last few months.
The official press release is here, and he’ll no doubt be a regular blogger on the 4iP site as soon as the dust has settled.
It took us longer than expected to make this appointment, but you can’t rush these things. Thanks for bearing with us in the meantime.
Jon Gisby
Andrew Dubber on Thu, August 21, 2008 at 12:42 said:
Brilliant news.
Tom is one of the most forward thinking individuals in this space. He’s given a good deal of thought to issues of public service media in the digital age, and his ‘15 Web Principles’ (developed as part of the BBC 2.0 project) is about as good as you could hope for as a guiding document for this stuff:
http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000063.html
His name comes up a lot in the research I’ve been involved in around the BBC and public service media online.
I’m really encouraged by this.
girisimc on Sat, November 01, 2008 at 6:54 said:
A regular blogger? Waiting to read his stuff. Might be that these changes will influence things on Channel 4.
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