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Category Archives: journalism history
Journalism in the common good
The legendary reporter Carl Bernstein stepped out of the film that made him famous to give journalism students in Cardiff an inspiring but simple message – good reporting is ‘the best obtainable version of the truth’.
Exposure is Back!
For the third year running January was a month of madness. Nothing to do with the post-Christmas blues or the inclement weather, but the preparations for and arrival of another three week live broadcast project named by the class of … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism education, journalism history, News about our students, Radio, Welsh media
Tagged Atrium, exposure radio
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Radio: Can training journalists transform societies?
Public service broadcasting is widely seen as a basic pillar of an open, democratic society in Britain. It’s epitomised by the BBC with its three aims – to inform, educate and entertain its audience. When commercial television (ITV) and, later, … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism education, journalism history, Radio
Tagged BBC, Journalism Practice., public service broadcasting, Romania, training
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Censorship in the Welsh media
The latest issue of the investigative website Rebecca includes disturbing accounts of two incidents in which the public were prevented from seeing TV programmes with a strong and clear public interest.
Posted in General, journalism history, TV, Welsh media
Tagged ITV Wales, Ofcom, paddy french, rebecca, wales this week, welsh rugby union
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Mission aborted – independent Welsh news consortium in new journal
The Association for Journalism Education has launched its new journal – Journalism Education – with papers looking at the current developments in the business, including the impact of Twitter. The journal includes a look-back at the previous government’s plans for … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism education, journalism history, TV, Welsh media
Tagged AJE, IFNC, ITV, jermy hunt, journalism education, public service broadcasting, Wales
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New BBC Director General not a journalist or programme maker?
IN an article for The Telegraph, former Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, has warned anyone applying to take over from current incumbent Mark Thompson to expect sleep deprivation, relentless scrutiny and unimaginable criticism – plus a significant reduction … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism education, journalism history, Radio, TV, Welsh media
Tagged BBC, Director General, Greg Dyke, Mark Thompson
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TV accused of sensationalising smallpox story – 1962
With media regulation high on the public agenda, a story from 50 years ago – when Wales was in the grip of a smallpox epidemic – has contemporary resonance.
Posted in General, journalism history, TV, Welsh media
Tagged independent television authority, regulation, sensationalism
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A century of tabloid Brits in New York
Another Brit (Colin Myler, ex News of the World) is on his way to New York to edit one of the city’s tabloids. Nothing new there. British (and Australian) subs and editors have long been recruited as shock troops in … Continue reading
Posted in journalism history, Newspapers
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Press standards – what’s new?
As the Leveson inquiry into press standards resumes (on 9 Jan) it might be interesting to put the current debate about the behaviour of the media into a historical perspective. Here’s a list of concerns about newspapers and journalists: ‘Complaints … Continue reading
Posted in journalism history, Newspapers
Tagged F J Mansfield, Leveson inquiry, press standards, privacy, sensationalism
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First with the (wrong) news
There’s a common theme in the analysis of the Daily Mail’s embarrassing use of a pre-written story on the Amanda Knox trial. (If you missed the story, it’s here – they mis-understood the verdict, said she was guilty when she … Continue reading
Posted in General, journalism history, Newspapers
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