GovComms: The Future of Government Communication4 Sep 2017

Intransition 127: Osama Saeed Bhutta, Director of Communications for Amnesty International

This week on InTransition we talk to Osama Saeed Bhutta, Director of Communications at Amnesty International and former Head of Communications at Al Jazeera. Osama started out as a volunteer organiser and press officer for the Stop the War movement in the UK, which later landed him a position with the Scottish National Party as a media and research officer. Fast forward a decade and a remarkable career with news organisation Al Jazeera, Osama is now the Head of Communications for Amnesty International. His role is to unite and mobilise the world against ever worsening humanitarian crises, widening gaps in wealth, education and equality and more refugees than ever before in the history of the world. “The other side make very emotionally laden arguments,” he said of the difficulty in presenting an engaging, rational opposition to many of today’s issues. “When you’re trying to get into people’s hearts, that kind of fact based approach, which has historically been the approach of NGOs, is less successful, and at the moment, we are being eaten for breakfast as a movement.” Discussed in this episode: When images work against you and disempower your audience The problem with highlighting the problem The need for positive messaging in the harshest times The importance of publicising the historical The role of the internet in uniting people and the need for people to get out from behind their keyboards

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