The ethics of representation
By Editor on September 4, 2008 10:21 am / Permalink
Earlier this year, the National Union of Journalists in UK had called on its members to “help nail asylum myths”, following concern over some reporters’ loose use of language on immigration issues. Ryan Hooper revisits the issue.
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Behind the crisis of trust
By Editor on August 21, 2008 2:52 pm / Permalink
The British media’s treatment of politics as a game played by self-serving — if not corrupt — people has created a significant crisis of trust in recent decades. Professor Barry Richards sees such cynical journalism as an effect of the emotional dysfunctions of a tribal party system.
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‘Digital diasporas are products of economic globalization’
By Editor on August 3, 2008 11:00 pm / Permalink
Professor Radhika Gajjala, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. In the second interview in our series on new media and culture, the author of Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women reflects on cyberfeminism, online identities, and the relationship between culture and economics on the internet.
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Sympathy for the devil
By Editor on July 29, 2008 4:57 pm / Permalink
In covering the story behind the story of Osama bin Laden, Peter L Bergen has left us grappling with some inconvenient ethical issues. Dan Hogan draws on the works of literary journalists such as Capote and Bowden and philosopher Grayling to answer the ‘unaskable’: can a 9/11, a Hiroshima, be justified?
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Of Marginal Revolution and Angry Bear
By Editor on July 24, 2008 4:07 am / Permalink
In the second instalment of our series on academic blogs, Rohit Chopra identifies posts on economics, globalization, higher education, and journalism.
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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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‘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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‘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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