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Global economics to university politics: more on academic blogs

By Editor on July 24, 2008 4:07 am / Permalink

In the second instalment of our series, Rohit Chopra identifies some blogs on economics, globalization, higher education, and journalism.

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News

In these times, Britons trust Beeb best

By Jameela Oberman on July 17, 2008 6:46 pm / Permalink

Despite the Crowngate and Blue Peter scandals earlier this year, 61 per cent of respondents to a British Journalism Review-YouGov poll said they trusted BBC journalists “a great deal or a fair amount”, ahead of ITV, Channel 4 and up-market reporters, and way ahead of red-top and mid-market newspapers. That’s the good news. The bad news is… well, read on.

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Interview

‘As in life, so on keyboard’

By Editor on July 9, 2008 5:00 am / Permalink

Jazz pianist Stephen Merriman discusses his new CD, Modal Soul, and how his work as a psychotherapist informs his approach to composition and playing. “The art a person produces, in any area, always reflects one’s inner state, including not only one’s gifts and talents specific to the art form, but one’s orientation towards life in general,” he tells Rohit Chopra.

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News

‘Good journalism isn’t dead. It’s terribly ill’

By Angelica Jopson on July 3, 2008 9:39 pm / Permalink

There is a black cloud hanging over the head of the fourth estate and it is smothering journalism — surely, and not slowly. It’s PR that Nick Davies, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Flat Earth News, is talking about.

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Article

The Cronenberg Approach

By Editor on June 25, 2008 2:06 pm / Permalink

The idea of using literary texts to illuminate film is not new. But there remains a stubborn Leavisite tendency that implicitly values literary writings as superior on the grounds of being the more established art form. Mark Browning examines Canadian director David Cronenberg’s works in this context.

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Interview

‘Maoist rebels are mirrors of our own failings as a nation’

By Editor on June 18, 2008 1:21 am / Permalink

sudeepSudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country, discusses the Maoist rebellion in India. “There is a crying need to mainstream it, tell the lay reader what is going on, shake ‘middle India’ out of its mall-stupor and diminish the delusions of grandeur of India’s lawmakers,” he tells Rohit Chopra. “The truth about this wrenching war has to be told.”

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Interview

‘Media must uphold human rights and social justice principles’

By Editor on June 12, 2008 4:49 am / Permalink

Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. The author of Islam and the Secular State addresses the role of media in upholding the principles of rights and social justice and the problems with embedded journalism.

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Article

The Church and Oprah

By Editor on June 6, 2008 2:10 am / Permalink

At the heart of a YouTube-led controversy stands Oprah Winfrey, one of the world’s most popular media figures, charged with threatening Christianity. In this article which first appeared in ReligionDispatches, Gary Laderman says there’s every reason to be concerned about the Church of Oprah. Because it’s part of a larger competing religious culture: celebrity worship.

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