Each Autumn Polis invites media practitioners to discuss the latest trends as part of our Media Agenda Talk series taking place 5pm-6pm every Tuesday in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE.
The talks are open to LSE students and the public, no registration required.
Tuesday 27th September
Dorothy Byrne, Head of News and Factual, C4
‘Why Media Matters’
Dorothy Byrne is known for […]
I am a constant critic of the BBC* but I find myself as a genuinely puzzled defender of their EU referendum coverage. The accusation from Remain supporters** is that the BBC should have abandoned its statutory requirement for balance/impartiality and said clearly that the Leave campaigns was a pack of lies and that sensible people should vote Remain.
There are […]
The EU referendum was a classic test of the concept of media framing of deliberation. Yet, it perhaps ended up demonstrating that it is politicians and the public who set the agenda and that the news media has short-term, shallow but significant effects.
No one can say that the media has not given us enough debate or information to help […]
The EU referendum is putting an historic choice before the British people: but how well has the UK’s news media done in staging the debate and informing the public?
No one can say that the media has not given us enough debate or information to help voters make up their minds. For months, the air waves have been buzzing with […]
Critics of Jeremy Corbyn have understandably leapt upon the evidence of the VICE News fly-on-the-wall film about the Labour leader as providing yet more evidence of his team’s internal divisions and incompetence. But people have missed that this is also an adroit piece of documentary-making that uses VICE’s stylistic informality to give us some very effective political journalism.
VICE’s Ben Ferguson […]
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