Tag Archives: Media Agenda Talks

Dec 8 2012

Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You – Aleks Krotoski at Polis LSE next Tuesday

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How are ‘relevance’ and ‘value’ constructed by Google? How are ‘self-expression’ and ‘relationships’ constructed by Facebook? Aleks Krotoski, academic, journalist, and host of BBC Radio 4′s The Digital Human science series and the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast, explores these questions … Continue reading →

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Nov 30 2012

Filming Africa Differently – Jamal Osman at Polis, LSE next Tuesday Dec 4th

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What’s it like to be an African journalist in Britain making films about Africa? Somalian-born Jamal Osman is an outstanding journalist and a brilliant film-maker who creates work that reveals but also challenges the viewer. He’s the next speaker in … Continue reading →

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Nov 16 2012

How We All Win In The Digital Wars – Charles Arthur at Polis LSE

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Charles Arthur goes way back in the technology industry. He recalls meeting Bill Gates for the first time in 1985. Microsoft was still a small company then, PCs just having started to come into general use. The idea of a … Continue reading →

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Nov 2 2012

British culture versus corrupt companies: the battle for media plurality (guest blog)

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The major threat to the quality of media today isn’t the economy or trust – it’s plurality. That’s the view of top analyst Claire Enders, given in her Polis Media Agenda Talk. Polis intern Gideon Reid reports. Claire Enders began … Continue reading →

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Oct 26 2012

Misestimation and misrepresentation: polling for the truth (guest blog)

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Pollster Ben Page thinks there’s a big lie out there: “nobody believes anybody anymore, the media are evil, and market researchers are evil and can’t predict anything.” In his LSE lecture as part of the Polis Media Agenda Talk series … Continue reading →

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Oct 19 2012

Reith Reinvented: BBC boss explains how new newsroom will ‘allow us to do what we do better.”

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“How many of you would be comfortable explaining quantitative easing to a friend in the pub?” In the room full of LSE students, not a single hand went up in reply to the question posed by Mary Hockaday, Head of … Continue reading →

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Jul 20 2012

Polis LSE Media Agenda Talks 2012: You’re Invited

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Every year we hear from about a dozen leading media practitioners as part of our annual autumn Media Agenda Talks lecture series. This year we feature top journalists, pollsters, analysts, and marketeers. Here are some highlights for this season’s talks … Continue reading →

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Nov 22 2011

What good is the BBC?

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“To make the good popular, and make the popular good.” Huw Wheldon’s definition for the BBC remains an inspiration for George Entwistle, current Director of BBC Vision, 36 years after Wheldon retired as director from the public broadcaster. It is … Continue reading →

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Nov 4 2011

Connecting communities, connecting people: social media and humanitarian campaigns (guest blog)

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What difference does social media make to a global campaign on a vast issue like HIV/Aids? Polis intern Wanda O’Brien reports on the latest Polis Media Agenda Talk. “Every minute a child is born with HIV.” How does that statement … Continue reading →

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Nov 1 2011

The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times by Arthur Sulzberger

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The chairman of the New York Times Arthur Sulzberger gave a talk at Polis LSE on the continuing digital transformation of the New York Times on November 1st. Here is the text. Good afternoon everyone.  I appreciate the opportunity to … Continue reading →

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