Category Archives: Journalism

May 13 2012

Breaking News In China

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China 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

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May 1 2012

Murdoch and the Media Committee: a political battle

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The 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

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Apr 29 2012

New Media’s Mid-Life Crisis (thoughts from four sessions at the Perugia International Journalism Festival #IFJ12

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New 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

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Apr 24 2012

Journalism as archeology

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I 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

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Apr 20 2012

How did Kony2012 Go Viral and Should We Copy It?

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In 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. … Continue reading

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Apr 18 2012

Kony2012 and the digital challenge to the public sphere (new research paper)

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This 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

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Mar 30 2012

Crash! Slump! Bust! Reporting the economic crisis (guest blog) #Polis12

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“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

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Mar 30 2012

The Only Way Is Ethics: newspapers after Leveson (Polis Conference Guest Blog) #Polis12

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The 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

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Mar 29 2012

Revolutionary citizens become better journalists (new LSE research)

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This report by LSE’s Max Hanska-Ahy on his work with Roxanna Shapour on media and the Arab Spring. We know that ‘ordinary people’ played an important role in reporting the recent protests that cascaded across the Middle East and North … Continue reading

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Mar 27 2012

Reporting Revolutions: Don’t Forget The Aftermath (Guest blog) #Polis12

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This report by Polis intern Barbara Feeney on our Reporting Revolutions panel discussion at the Polis Journalism Conference chaired by Richard Sambrook of Cardiff University with BBC’s Lyse Doucet, Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News (who has a new book, … Continue reading

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