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Ed Miliband’s problem with the Sun (and the working classes in general)
Remember Brave Ed standing up to Rupert Murdoch after the phone-hacking scandal burst into the open? He quite rightly earned credit back in 2011 for cutting the cord that had previously bound UK...
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Norman Lewis and the Humanist Approach to Technology
Polis Intern and LSE MSc student Francesca Martens reports on the latest Polis Media Agenda Talk featuring Norman Lewis, writer for Futures Diagnosis and Innovation Specialist at...
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Let’s look up from our phones, that’s where actual innovations might be!
Polis Intern and LSE MSc student Anaelle Azoulay reports on the latest Polis Media Agenda Talk featuring Dr Norman Lewis. “I don’t care if you have landed a spacecraft on a comet, you are sexist”. This...
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Sexism, ice cream, and Renzi’s “no comment strategy”
This article is by Polis Intern and LSE student Jessica Di Paolo. Inevitably, it’s been labelled ‘gelatogate’. On Twitter, women and men posted pictures of themselves eating ice creams and featuring...
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PositionDial and the joys of self-discovery
This article is by Polis Intern and LSE MSc student John Ray on a presentation given by PositionDial founder Mariam Cook. As a child growing up in the United States, I remember asking my mother why she...
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Tech v Hacks: time for a truce?
The formation of two tribes around the future of journalism was understandable back in the day of ‘bloggers v newspapers’ but why are we still waiting for the battle lines to be redrawn between...
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Using data for campaigning journalism: Monique Villa at LSE
Polis Intern and LSE MSc student Alex Forbess reports on the latest Polis Media Agenda Talk featuring Monique Villa Data used in campaigning journalism is now essential to raise awareness on global...
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Should broadcasters credit newspapers when they follow up on their scoops?
The Times had this ‘world exclusive’ today. It’s a cracking story. It seems the British Museum think it’s ok to loan the Parthenon Marbles to Putin’s Russia, but won’t consider letting the Greeks have...
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9th December Media Agenda Talk: Sophia Money-Coutts from Tatler
The 2014 Media Agenda Talks are coming to an end and this year’s final speaker is Sophia Money-Coutts, Features Editor at Tatler magazine. For those of you who have never picked up a Tatler magazine...
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The Philosopher King of Networked Journalism Stands Down, The Legacy Lives
Like his newspaper, Alan Rusbridger is a man of contradictions. A privately-educated, Oxbridge radical. A powerful voice for open, accountability journalism who mumbles his way through public events. A...
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A reflection on ‘Great Britain’ (guest blog)
LSE student Ross Longton looks at the on-going challenge to find an ethical balance between the police and the media. Outside, the banner of a West-End theatre states: ‘Press. Police. Politics’....
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“Everyone works very hard to create a magazine that will make readers laugh”...
Polis intern and LSE MSc Cristina Abellan-Matamoros reports on the final Polis Media Agenda Talk for 2014 with Sophia Money-Coutts, Features Editor, Tatler “Everyone works very hard to create a...
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Polis TV: The Journalism Spectrum
In this video we focus on Journalism, wide variety of types of journalism that can be found, and begin to discuss the role journalism can play. POLIS TV: The Journalism Spectrum from Polis Video on...
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Silverstone Scholarship awarded to Milan Dinic
Polis are delighted to announce that the recipient of the Silverstone Scholarship for 2015 is LSE MSc student Milan Dinic. Milan Dinic is a Journalist from Serbia, with a BA in Political Science and...
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Can nationalism save the press?: the case of The National in Scotland
The launch of a nationalist newspaper is big media news in Scotland. But does the creation of the National title have wider significance as journalism businesses seek new ways to connect to the public....
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After WikiLeaks and Snowden a future alliance between journalists,...
Polis Intern Jessica Di Paolo (@JessDiPaolo) reports on a gathering of investigative journalism at the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Logan Symposium “The information age is actually a media...
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Polis Lunchtime Talks 2015 Speaker Programme
This Spring Term, Polis will host a range of media practitioners on Wednesday lunchtimes to discuss their roles and experiences of the sector. Open to staff, students and the public. ‘Capitalisn’t:...
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The right response to Charlie Hebdo: fear and humanity
Today I started research on a documentary about how journalists should deal with the surfeit of frightening, horrific news in our lives: then along comes the Charlie Hebdo massacre. [This article has...
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Citizen terrorism: the Paris killings and networked media
This article by LSE student and Polis Silverstone Scholar Milan Dinic (@MilanDinic1) The tragic killings which took place in a magazine office and a grocery store in Paris show a shift in the...
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