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Media Diversity or simply Pluralism?
This is an article by student Farah Hesdin following a talk given by Samantha Asumadu at the Polis Summer School Media Diversified, founded by Samantha Asumadu, is a media initiative launched in 2013...
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Why we need coverage of suffering
This article is by Polis Summer School student Sara Hodgkins (@shodgkinss) Just Because You Don’t Like It Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Happening: Why We Need Coverage of Suffering Suffering. A hard, difficult...
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Why Journalists Should Talk About Geography
This article is by Polis Summer School student Paul Sorbo (@PaulJSorbo) on a talk given by Tim Marshall at the LSE to launch his book ‘Prisoners of Geography’ Former foreign correspondent Tim Marshall...
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Government secrecy and the task of meta-journalists
This article is by Polis Summer School student Alessandra Bocchi ‘The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and...
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The issue of consent in Photojournalism
This article is by student Farah Hesdin following a talk given by Polly Markandya at the Polis Summer School We all take pictures of our surroundings, impulsively and arbitrarily. Sometimes of funny...
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The debate about the future of the Labour Party: the best and worst of times
This is the most exciting and depressing phase of debate within a modern British political party that I can recall. The argument about the leadership of the Labour Party mostly encapsulates what’s...
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Women in the Media: who shapes what?
This article is by Polis Summer School student Farah Hesdin (@farahhesdin) Who did I turn to in my search for news as I freshly arrived to the UK? The BBC, of course. An instinctive choice almost, I...
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Media Agenda Talks 2015
Each autumn Polis invites a dozen media practitioners to discuss the latest trends as part of our yearly Media Agenda Talk series taking place 5pm-6pm every Tuesday on the LSE campus in London. Exact...
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How journalism is turning emotional and what that might mean for news
This blog is based on a talk Charlie Beckett gave at the 2015 British Science Festival in Bradford. As journalism and society changes emotion is becoming a much more important dynamic in how news is...
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Ethics will be as central as economics to the future of the news industry
This article by Charlie Beckett was originally posted on the LSE Business Review Blog I do not know of any industry that has been through such an existential crisis as journalism has in the last decade...
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Should editors share analytics with journalists ?
This article is by MSC student Ndeye Diobaye based on a Quartz panel debate on the future of digital news No one likes a bad grade. But should journalists know how their pieces perform based on the...
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Calling for a Revolution in Climate Change Rhetoric
When journalists talk about climate change are they failing to address the underlying issues and so missing a chance to connect this complex narrative to real people’s lives? Hanna Morris reports on...
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Journalism is a childish practice: the future of news is Hot Tub Time Machine...
Journalism is essentially an immature craft. The output is inevitably provisional, incomplete and less accurate, complex and objective than the reality it seeks to portray. It must always resort to...
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The Everyday Sexism Project: A media tool to shape policy?
This article is by LSE MSc student and Polis Intern Claudia Valdiviezo @claudiavl8 from an talk given by Laura Bates at LSE as part of Polis Media Agenda Talks When Laura Bates founded the Everyday...
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The future of the BBC: the debate continues
Julia Ziemer reflects on a debate at the 2015 Cheltenham Literature Festival with Melvyn Bragg, James Purnell, Charlotte Higgins and Anne McElvoy. With the looming prospect of the Charter renewal in...
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Public Relations is not the Devil After All
Johanna Quinney reflects on a visit by Ed Amory of freuds Communications for the October #PolisTalks Johanna is a MSc Student in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She previously served...
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Childproofing the new formats
Polis/EBU newsroom fellow Kritisn Granbo from Norway will be with Polis for the month of October to research the topic of how the way we report news for children is changing. For more information on...
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“I manage the fear” : being a dissident writer in China
As the UK government receive Chinese president Xi Jinping on his state visit this week, Julia Ziemer and Yanning Huang meet dissident writer Murong Xuecun at Asia House to hear about his experience of...
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Strolling down Houghton Street, the war in Syria looks a little less real
Joelle Eid is an MSc Media and Communications student at LSE. Prior to that, she acted as spokesperson for the World food Programme and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon and...
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Efficiency in Branding: the question of new paradigms
Flavy Sen Sharma is an MSc. Global Politics student in the Department of Government at LSE. She previously worked with a think tank in India with a focus on economic research. Here she reflects on a...
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