My media 2020
My biggest media hit of the year was a quick soundbite the morning after the US election, given to Bloomberg in Brussels, who explained that all of their US-based experts were still in bed. (As I probably should have been too.) It came out just in time for the Asian evening news cycle, so I found my name popping up in mentions in Chinese (both Hong Kong and Taiwan, and presumably the mainland as well), Indonesian and Vietnamese as well as the less unusual Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Greek.
My other big hit was an October interview on the future of Kosovo/Serbia relations, which I did in English but is only available in Albanian and Serbian. (Google Translate is your friend.)
Apart from that, I did an interview on Brexit for Bulgarian TV, and for a Flemish journalism student, and a piece for Montenegro television on the pandemic (back in the days before Montenegro had been seriously hit by it). Here's the last of those - voiceover in the local language, but you can hear me in the background.
Also in media news, I secured a positive ruling from the Spanish media ethics commission in June over false statements published about me in 2018 and 2019 by a Spanish news website, finding in my favour on all counts. I was told earlier this month that the commission is restarting the process to give the news website a chance to reply (a bit mysterious as to why the commission failed to reach them in the first place) but I'm still right and they're still wrong, so I'm confident in getting the same result. Will update here as and when.
My other big hit was an October interview on the future of Kosovo/Serbia relations, which I did in English but is only available in Albanian and Serbian. (Google Translate is your friend.)
Apart from that, I did an interview on Brexit for Bulgarian TV, and for a Flemish journalism student, and a piece for Montenegro television on the pandemic (back in the days before Montenegro had been seriously hit by it). Here's the last of those - voiceover in the local language, but you can hear me in the background.
Also in media news, I secured a positive ruling from the Spanish media ethics commission in June over false statements published about me in 2018 and 2019 by a Spanish news website, finding in my favour on all counts. I was told earlier this month that the commission is restarting the process to give the news website a chance to reply (a bit mysterious as to why the commission failed to reach them in the first place) but I'm still right and they're still wrong, so I'm confident in getting the same result. Will update here as and when.