About this site

These face-to-face courses have been specifically designed to strengthen your skills as a professional researcher. They will help you track difficult information on the Net as well as understand security implications of the web, equipping you to conduct sophisticated information gathering.

Aimed at journalists and researchers in the broadcast industry, the skills are also relevant to professionals in other fields such as intelligence, business research and advertising.

This course will teach you:

to produce stunning investigative work while protecting your cover
advanced research techniques to sift through useless information and find relevant material
exploit many of the resources the internet offers
recognise and overcome the various pitfalls of internet research
establish the identity of website owners
find interesting guests, sound clips, images and statistics for programme production

BBC Training & Development has tailored this course for a number of organisations, hosting it in corporate and production offices in London, the UK and abroad

Background to the course

For joining enquiries please call BBC Training & Development on

0044 207 208 9426 (international)
0207 208 9426 (from the UK)
ext 89426 (from the BBC)

If your query is about course content, please ask to speak to Paul Myers.

About the trainers

Paul Myers (course producer)

Paul is the strand producer for Streaming Media and internet Research courses and also teaches web page design and image production. He is the author of BBC Training & Development’s internet research manual and this website.

Alongside his training role, Paul has written for the BBCi website and regularly produces internet live chat shows with guests as diverse as Ken Livingstone and Westlife. He has also acted as an internet security consultant for Panorama, presented an item about online privacy for BBC World TV’s "Click Online" programme, appeared on BBC Local & National Radio and designed a website for use on BBC 1’s Kenyon Confronts programme

Paul joined the BBC as a news information researcher in 1995, moving to Training in 1998 as one of the corporation’s first new media guides. In early 1999 he became a new media trainer and last year moved up to the role of strand producer.

Phil Ross (contributing editor)

Phil is strand producer for the Communities and Web Production strands. He also looks after the New Media Briefing, which raises awareness of the latest new media developments across the BBC.

Phil specialises in internet related subjects, such as research and search engines. He began his BBC career at Radio Merseyside, in technical operations, production, and presentation - working mostly on specialist music and arts programmes. He moved to Radio 1 as a producer, and worked on a wide range of programmes - studio-based sequence shows, concerts, live outside broadcasts, and documentaries. At various times during his career he has worked in Local Radio Training and Radio Training.