Diana Rusk - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

I'm an Assistant Editor at BBC News. I spend my days overseeing the team that operates the world’s largest news Facebook page that has more than 30 million fans, the award-winning @BBCBreaking Twitter account and other flagship BBC accounts on social media. I also oversee the User Generated Content hub that verifies social media and audience content for the corporation. I've helped roll out the BBC’s live content on Facebook, bringing the expertise of BBC journalists to audiences around the world and taking audiences on location with lives from a migrant rescue ship on the Mediterranean, Brussels and Nice after terror attacks and anywhere the story is happening.

Content

Total articles 4

• How the internet misled you in 2015

  By Diana Rusk Verified| bbc.com@ It was another busy year for journalists debunking fake or misleading images on social media. In 2015, many pictures and videos went viral, some for all the wrong reasons. There were deliberate fakes created to deceive the public and then there were misleading images shared, often during breaking news situations, that were entirely unrelated to the story. Were you caught out by any of these?

  By Diana Rusk Verified · bbc.com

  Dec. 26, 2015

• Provisional IRA founder Billy McKee defends its worst atrocities including murder of Jean McConville

  By Diana Rusk Verified| The Irish News Verified A FOUNDER of the Provisional IRA has defended some of its worst atrocities including Bloody Friday and the murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville. Billy McKee, who was the paramilitary group's first leader in Belfast, claimed that Mrs McConville was an informer who ignored repeated warnings to stop. The widow was dragged from her home weeks before Christmas 1972 as her children looked on. She was driven over the border and shot in the head before being buried on a beach in Co Louth.

  By Diana Rusk Verified · The Irish News

  Jun. 12, 2019

• Flipboard on Flipboard

  By Diana Rusk Verified| Flipboard@ It was another busy year for journalists debunking fake or misleading images on social media. In 2015, many pictures and videos went viral, some for all the wrong reasons. There were deliberate fakes created to deceive the public and then there were misleading images shared, often during breaking news situations, that were entirely unrelated to the story. Were you caught out by any of these? This was one of the most shared photos in the wake of the Nepal earthquake in April.

  By Diana Rusk Verified · Flipboard

  Feb. 05, 2018

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Company Info

Times of Malta

Times of Malta is Malta’s oldest daily newspaper, established in 1935 by Lord Gerald Strickland, Lady Strickland, and Mabel Strickland. Operated by Allied Newspapers Limited, it has the widest circulation in Malta and is recognized as the country’s most influential media house. The company began its publishing journey in the 1920s with *Il-Progress*, Malta’s first evening newspaper, and later expanded into bilingual journalism. The Times of Malta offers a daily English-language newspaper that covers local and international news, focusing on social, environmental, and cultural issues. It also publishes *The Sunday Times of Malta*, a weekly edition. In 2000, the company launched *Timesofmalta.com*, Malta’s first online news portal, which has become the most visited website on the island. The digital platform features real-time updates, multimedia content, and user-generated comments, supported by a dedicated team of journalists and designers. The Times of Malta is committed to fact-based reporting and serves a diverse audience, including the general public, businesses, and institutions.