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Author Archives: Charlie Beckett
May 13 2012
Breaking News In China
Leave a commentChina is making headlines around the world in many ways. The global media is fascinated by recent tales of alleged corruption and human rights abuse as well some signs that the all-mighty China economy might be stuttering. At the same … Continue reading
Posted by: May 13, 2012
Tagged with: Aljazeera, Beijing, cctv, China, Globalisation, human rights
May 7 2012
Non-User President: Will @PutinRussia replace @MedvedevRussia? (guest blog)
Leave a commentOn May 7 Russia got an old-new President and a new Prime Minister. Among the many differences between the members of the so-called “Russian tandem”, there is one that is less visible, but important. It is the approach of Vladimir … Continue reading
Posted by: May 7, 2012
Tagged with: Asmolov, Freedom of expression, Guest bloggers, guest blogs, Innternet, internet, Putin, Russia
May 1 2012
Murdoch and the Media Committee: a political battle
Leave a commentThe Media Select Committee report on its phone-hacking investigation is tougher than I expected and very pointed. It is difficult to see why anyone would think well of the Murdochs as media proprietors after reading it. Tom Watson’s typically determined bid to … Continue reading
Posted by: May 1, 2012
Tagged with: Murdoch, nes international, news corpo, Regulation, Tom Watson
Apr 29 2012
New Media’s Mid-Life Crisis (thoughts from four sessions at the Perugia International Journalism Festival #IFJ12
Leave a commentNew media is entering middle age. We’ve all dropped the ‘new’ bit and instead talk about ‘social’ and ‘semantic’ as Web 3.0 becomes reality. Yet while digital communications are triumphing and networked journalism blossoms in this media mid-life, we are … Continue reading
Posted by: April 29, 2012
Tagged with: events, Freedom of expression, internet, Journalism, Kony2012, Leveson, Murdoch, Perugia, Phonehacking
Apr 24 2012
Journalism as archeology
Leave a commentI am in what we in journalism refer to as The Eternal City. What better place to think about the parallels between journalism and archeology. This is what social media does. I am here to give a talk about Leveson … Continue reading
Posted by: April 24, 2012
Tagged with: archeology, charlotte higgins, digging, emily bell, Journalism
Apr 20 2012
How did Kony2012 Go Viral and Should We Copy It?
Leave a commentIn this short draft extract from a much longer paper I argue that what made #Kony2012 go viral was not the slick content or the Invisible Children brand – it was its focus on networking as an end in itself.
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: campaigns, campaings, coverthenight, Development, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, NGO, public sphere
Apr 18 2012
Kony2012 and the digital challenge to the public sphere (new research paper)
1 CommentThis is a short early draft extract from a much longer paper I am writing for the International Broadcasting Trust on the future of the ‘public sphere’ in the digital age. In other words, how does our ability to communicate … Continue reading
Posted by: April 18, 2012
Tagged with: Development, humanitarian communications, IBT, internet, Kony2012, papers, politics, public sphere, Research
Mar 30 2012
Crash! Slump! Bust! Reporting the economic crisis (guest blog) #Polis12
Leave a comment“How many of you have heard of a CDS?” A smattering of hands shot up into the air when Bloomberg News’ Economics Editor Linda Yueh asked who knew what a credit default swap was at the POLIS International Journalism Conference … Continue reading
Posted by: March 30, 2012
Tagged with: confernce, economics, finance, Financial journalism, guest blog, Polis12
Mar 30 2012
The Only Way Is Ethics: newspapers after Leveson (Polis Conference Guest Blog) #Polis12
1 CommentThe Leveson Inquiry is carrying out the most extensive investigation into the practice and ethics of the British press in history. With a nation shocked by endless tales of private investigators and phone hacking, never before has there been such … Continue reading
Posted by: March 30, 2012
Tagged with: Conference, ethics, events, Guardian, guest blog, independent, Leveson, Polis12, sunday mirror, tabloids
Mar 30 2012
What we’ve learnt from a weird week in politics
Leave a commentWhen Harold Wilson said that thing about long weeks in politics*, I don’t think he had grannies, pasties, jerrycans and Bradford Muslims in mind. This has been a particularly febrile seven days in political communications – what do you think … Continue reading
Posted by: March 30, 2012
Tagged with: Bradford West, by-elections, coalition, Conservatives, Tories, Westminster
