Speaker: Kevin Anderson

Journalist, BBC World Service

Kevin Anderson has been an online journalist for 10 years. From 1998 until this April, he was the Washington reporter for BBCNews.com, the award winning news website of the BBC. During his time in Washington, he covered two US presidential elections, two midterm elections, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the attacks of 11 September 2001 as well as general coverage of technology, US politics and national security.
During the 2004 US presidential election, he wrote a weblog that covered the Republican and Democratic party conventions, the general campaign and presidential debates as well as a 17-day tour of the US, talking to voters about the issues important to them. His editors found that the weblog talked about issues outside of the mainstream news agenda and sparked a lively, well informed discussion about healthcare, the war in Iraq and retirement savings.
In April of this year, he came to London to write a blogging strategy for BBC News. He has taken the lessons learned from his weblog and writing the blogging strategy to help launch a new interactive radio programme on the BBC World Service called World Have Your Say.