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Write to the Point: Four Tips for Better Writing
LSE MSc student Perry Newsome distills some key advice from Sam Leith’s Polis Talk at the LSE on 4th December 2018 Effective writing skills are a life-long asset. No matter where you may be in your...
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Making documentaries for the YouTube generation
In the final talk of the Media and Communications in Action series, Polis hosted BBC documentary maker Benjamin Zand. LSE MSc student Greeshma Rajeev picks out some of the highlights from his talk....
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New Report: What use is Blockchain for journalism?
Mattias Erkkilä is managing editor at the Finnish public service broadcaster Yle. He has written the report ‘What use is blockchain for journalism’ during a short research fellowship with Polis, LSE...
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The Coming Revolution: Why the EU is the best body for negotiating our future...
LSE MSc student Sam Gangadin-Guinness looks at what leaving the EU will mean for Britain’s ability to reign in the powerful tech companies. The 2016 Brexit campaign was pitched as a crusade to...
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A Sustainable Future for Journalism?
George Pitcher on the latest recommendations for the future of journalism from The Cairncross Review and Knight Foundation. Dame Frances Cairncross’s review of the UK media, subtitled A Sustainable...
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Are we heading towards a digital dystopia? Q&A with author Sam Byers
As part of next week’s LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders, author Sam Byers will be participating on a panel discussing ‘Are We Heading Towards a Digital Dystopia?‘ along with LSE academics Orla...
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Who Owns the News? The future of National News Agencies in Europe
LSE MSc student Pablo Aguera-Reneses reports from the launch event for the LSE report ‘The Future of National News Agencies in Europe’ on 6/2/2019 “In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any...
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From Africanising the Crash to Ethiopianising the problem – The media...
Former journalist, communications specialist and current LSE MSc student Behailu Shiferaw Mihirete looks at the media coverage of the recent Ethiopian Airlines’ plane crash. On Sunday, 10 March 2019,...
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Reporting Terror: First Lessons From New Zealand
The shocking attack in New Zealand is a reminder that terrorism is above all a media act. Without publicity there would be no point for the terrorist. They are attempts to show their power, recruit...
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What future for AI in news? We want to find out
Introducing Journalism AI, a collaboration between LSE’s Polis and the Google News Initiative to foster literacy in newsrooms globally about artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, machine...
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Emotion as an organising principle for networked journalism
Journalism is becoming more emotional. The social networks and business models such as membership or subscription mean that content is being created to tap into people’s feelings, values and...
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How can journalists become more human literate?
Journalism is being refashioned in a thousand ways but do we understand the fundamentals of the challenge? This wide-ranging article by CUNY journalism professor @jeffjarvis sets out some basic false...
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What journalists talk about when they talk about AI
Since the launch of the project six weeks ago, our Journalism AI team has been talking with journalists and technologists to find out what are their main thoughts, concerns and expectations about the...
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Talking about the next generation: experienced journalists tell us what the...
In this special research article George Pitcher hears from senior journalists about the nature of their work and whether the next generation can be attracted to journalism as a worthwhile career...
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BuzzFeed takes on the world
Polis Summer School student Tatiana Sytnichenko reports on the latest speaker for this year’s course. “BuzzFeed News is the leading independent digital media company delivering news and entertainment...
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How to adapt to social media without losing trust or traditional values
How far should well-established journalism brands adapt their editorial policies to accommodate digital technologies such as social media? In a talk to the LSE Polis Summer School former Economist...
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Where do you go when you want your news from “anywhere but Westminster?”
With rising complaints against the ‘mainstream media’ representing an out-of-touch elite, The Guardian’s John Domokos came to LSE to talk about a different approach in his ‘Anywhere but Westminster‘...
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Reporting on war, fighting battles in the newsroom: Rima Maktabi on conflict...
On TV since age 18, Lebanese journalist Rima Maktabi gained international recognition for her reporting during the 2006 Lebanese War. Speaking to students of the Polis/LSE Summer School, Maktabi...
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The great media divide in the digital age: public relations and journalism
“People in the PR industry don’t pick the phone up anymore and have human relationships” In his second special research article, George Pitcher speaks to two senior practitioners on each side of the...
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The Journalism AI global survey: what we’ve learned so far
Over the last few weeks, newsrooms from all over the world have been completing our Journalism AI survey. Contributions came in from Europe, South and North America, Africa, and Asia. We’re immensely...
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