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Jonathan Tanner

Media & Public Affairs Officer

Jonathan worked as a senior researcher to an MP in the UK Parliament on successful backbench legislation and also national media campaigns. Since joining ODI he has helped to coordinate the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development and is responsible for ODI's media coverage as well as producing audio interviews for social media with senior figures including Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sri Mulyani.

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July Podcast: democracy, Mali election, aid and the military

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 24 July 2013

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G8 leaders must do more than talk a tough game on multinational tax avoidance

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 June 2013

'Eight years on Britain has changed. Comeback gigs are so common they’re practically passé and politicians appear reluctant to talk about aid at all. If you stopped the next person you saw in the street and asked them what we might expect from the summit, the answer would probably be ‘what summit?’.'

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To create or to disseminate, is that the question?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 April 2013

'The challenge for think tank communicators then becomes as much about clever content creation as it is broader dissemination.'

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Progress for everyone? Measuring inequality and why it matters

Opinion - Articles and blogs,Podcasts and audio - 24 April 2013

'By looking at averages when measuring progress, we are looking at a biased view of what we have been able to achieve. Only by looking at inequitable distributions of our progress, can we really understand whether or not we are achieving progress.'

Inequality doesn’t just hurt the poorest people – it hurts whole societies, leading many to argue that tackling inequality should be at the centre of the next development framework – not on the periphery.

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Using social media: research communications and the development dialogue

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 15 April 2013

'We know that we are reaching people through social media that we weren’t reaching a couple of years ago… That’s helping us to broaden the conversation and awareness of development issues.'

In this interview, Jim Rosenberg - Head of Online and Social Media at The World Bank, Jonathan Tanner – Media and Public Affairs Officer at ODI and Nick Scott, Digital Manager at ODI, discuss the use of social media channels in development and research communications.

The discussants explore the following issues:

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