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2017: Media will get messier, journalism must show courage
One of the most common fallacies of media trend prediction is the idea of a ‘tipping point’. 2016 is no different. It might feel like the 12 months when media and democracy crash-landed. It will be...
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Public Debate at LSE: How should journalists cover President Trump?
My think-tank Polis is hosting a public debate at the LSE on Wednesday January 25th at 6.30pm with the London Press Club on how the news media should respond to a Trump Presidency. In the wake of...
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James Jones’ Unarmed Black Male: exploring human stories behind the numbers...
In 2015, police officers killed 1,146 people in the United States, according to The Counted, the Guardian newspaper’s online project documenting police killings. The vast majority were by gunshot, and...
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How the nature and circumstances of a news event are key in shaping political...
Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde is a Fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism and a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE E. Vargas, CC BY-SA 2.0 Note: This is the...
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Take the Trump populist test
Trump. Brexit. The language of populism is winning historic political victories. Understanding populist discourse can help us spot it more effectively and have more clarity about what we are up against...
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Britain’s paper tigers?: join the debate on Feb 20th
Get free tickets for this event by clicking here. Newspapers are now mere paper tigers, we are told, yet in the face of a tidal wave of fake news, misinformation and bias, perhaps we need good...
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Twitter and managing journalistic work: Between distraction and optimization
Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde is a Fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism and a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE Note: This is the fourth post in the Beyond 140...
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That Facebook vision thing: a platform still grappling with political realities
I initially described Mark Zuckerberg’s latest mission statement as ‘vacuous’. That was a rather rude way of saying that there is a vacuum at the heart of his rhetoric. It’s politics. What’s...
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Can you trust mainstream media to meet the digital challenge?
There’s a perennial air of mystery around the media-consuming habits of teenagers and young adults. Most content producers being quite a bit older, it can be hard for them to take the pulse of the...
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Why strategic communications matters and how to study it
This autumn the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications is launching a new course in Strategic Communications. Course leader Dr Lee Edwards explains why she thinks this is such an important...
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Should tech companies subsidise journalism?
Journalism as an industry is in deep trouble economically and yet the social networks that increasingly carry its content are booming. Surely, these digital buddies could spare a dime (or a billion) to...
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Filtering out French fake news: LSE students join verification project
I am one of four French postgraduate students in the LSE Media and Communications involved in CrossCheck, an exciting journalistic collaborative verification project that helps French voters for the...
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Britain’s Paper Tigers: Past, Present, and Future of Journalism
Does the last newspaper leaving behind its offices on Fleet Street signal the end of Britain’s press? Can quality journalism cohabitate with “jaw-dropping” cat video listicles on the same website? What...
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‘Fake news’: the best thing that’s happened to journalism
Fake News has upset a lot of people and caused real damage but it’s been good news for journalism analysts like me. I’ve never had more interest in a media issue than this. I’ve never been busier...
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Scotland’s second referendum: another test for the media as well as democracy
Another referendum means another bout of media self examination. I suspect it will see journalists in the firing line from public and politicians as well. Can the news media get it right this time? The...
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Virtual Reality’s potential in storytelling
Gabriel Zech is a student of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. German soldier among ruins in the city of Calais, France in May 1940 (adapted from...
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Trust and engagement: notes from the frontline
In March Polis brought together about 50 journalists, data scientists, journalism academics, platform representatives, campaigners, entrepreneurs, startup founders and investors to the LSE to discuss...
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How young people are coping with ‘fake news’
How ‘literate’ are young people when it comes to getting their news on social media? Niklas McKerrell is a sixth-form student who attended a recent Polis workshop with Facebook looking at ‘news...
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(Another) fascinating media election coming up
Remember when we used to say that this is going to be the ‘Twitter’ or ‘Facebook’ or ‘TV debates’ election? It never was and now politics red in tooth and claw rules supreme, not a particular platform...
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How the TV debates were organised in #GE2015 and their impact: the full story
I wrote the chapter on broadcasting for the Cowley/Kavanagh Election 2015 book. Here is the section on the negotiations that led to the TV ‘debates’ and their impact – for the full chapter and the...
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