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Navigating a complex media landscape
Charlie Beckett asks: How do you reach an audience to pay attention to your research or publications in a world where media power is shifting and the terms of communication trade are becoming more...
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LISTEN: Migrants, Terror and the Media debate on 11 February
On 11th February 2016 Polis LSE and London Press Club hosted a panel to discuss reporting and responsibility on issues of crises. Featuring Lindsey Hilsum (International Editor, Channel 4), Yasmin...
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Can we have an honest conversation about the migrant crisis?
Johanna Quinney is an MSc Student in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She previously served as the Spokesperson and Press Secretary for Canada’s Ministers’ of National Defence and...
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The Future of News
This article is from a talk given by Charlie Beckett at the The University of Amsterdam on 19/02/16 THE FUTURE OF NEWS IS PAST, LONG LIVE THE FUTURE OF NEWS Today I want to ask a question I have been...
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Journalism and Emotions
This article is from a talk given by Charlie Beckett at the University of Amsterdam on 20/2/16. This talk will argue that as journalism and society changes,emotion is becoming a much more important...
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Making and Measuring News: Data and Algorithms in Journalism
By Alison Powell, Assistant Professor and Programme Director of the MSc in Media and Comms (Data and Society) at LSE Journalists have a special responsibility in democratic society. They are supposed...
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‘A parallel universe’: David Aaronovitch on growing up communist
By MSc student Jae Aron. Jae previously worked as a political consultant for Democratic campaigns in Washington, DC. Follow her on Twitter @Jae_Aron As part of the LSE Literary Festival on 27th...
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Women of the World Festival: Celebrity, Solidarity, and Activism
Winnie M Li is a first-year PhD researcher in the Dept of Media and Communications, focusing on the impact of social media and storytelling on the public dialogue about rape. She is also writes for...
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The Trashies: talking back to the media
Henna Zamurd-Butt is a Politics and Communications MSc student at LSE and an editor at Media Diversified. She was formerly a news editor at user-generated press agency, Newzulu @HennaButt In an era in...
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What Algorithms Can Teach Journalists
Stavros Rougas is the cofounder of Expertise Finder and a former producer at the Toronto based current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Many journalists use the word “algorithm” but do...
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Robot News: a new Polis report on data driven news production
This report is the outcome of a workshop held on 24/2/16 at LSE with participants from a range of organisations including Financial Times, The Times, Reuters Institute, BBC, Storyful, The Guardian,...
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“Beyond 140 Characters”: A Tow Center project about the forces that shape...
Svenja Ottovordemgentschenfelde is a Fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism and a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE This blog was originally written for the Tow...
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The gap in how we think about change
Noémie Battini is an MSc Media Communication and Development student at the LSE, and a Womanity Foundation intern working on the Womanity Award. @tweetmenoemie From ‘Millennium’ to ‘Sustainable’...
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21 April: Polis Conference on Journalism and Crisis
This Thursday 21 April we will be bringing over 40 speakers to LSE for a free one-day conference debating issues on Journalism and Crisis. Featuring speakers including Jon Snow, Anne McElvoy, Yasmin...
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12 May- Join us for the News Impact Summit
Join us at the News Impact Summit on Thursday 12 May in London for FREE! On Thursday 12 May, the twelfth News Impact Summit (#NISLON) will be held in London, UK. The event will focus on the theme...
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Listen: Journalism and Crisis 21 April 2016
Reporting Refugees Rossalyn Warren (Buzzfeed), Clarissa Ward (CNN), Kareem Shaheen (Guardian), Milene Larsson (Vice), Anna Masera (La Stampa) and Charlie Beckett (LSE)...
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Telling the Human Story: A Polis Film
In this short film Telling the Human Story: Reporting Refugees from Lebanon by LSE MSc student Joelle Eid, journalists based in Lebanon talk about how they covered the story of the Syrian refugee...
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A recipe for a right-wing assault on public service media?
This article by Dr Bart Cammaerts, of the LSE Media and Communications Department. While the announcement of the BBC to mothball the BBC Food site seems at first to be a somewhat trivial decision, it...
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That VICE Corbyn film: beware your friends in the media – especially if you...
Critics of Jeremy Corbyn have understandably leapt upon the evidence of the VICE News fly-on-the-wall film about the Labour leader as providing yet more evidence of his team’s internal divisions and...
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This is what I said about the future of news in 2009 – you fools, why didn’t...
This week I am hosting a workshop with some Swedish newspaper editors, so I thought I would go back to a talk I gave in Stockholm in 2009 to see whether they should bother listening to my predictions...
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