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From fee to mutual? What kind of BBC do you want to emerge from Charter Renewal? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
Most of these people are Tories and I doubt they want ‘their’ BBC abolished If the BBC is such great value then why do we have to take 180,000 people to court every year to make them pay for it? In ...
Who is winning the information war: security services or the new disruptive journalists? 20 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
Greenwald and Miranda Like a lot of people I objected to the treatment of David Miranda at the hands of the UK security officials and I was worried by the pressure put on The Guardian, as related by ...
Egypt’s Media War 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
The Egyptian national media coverage of the bloody clampdown on the Muslim Brotherhoods sit-ins and the violence that erupted in its aftermath in Egypt gives even more evidence to support the finding...
Egyptian for a Week 14 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
In this article LSE Media and Communications MSc student, Raneem Hannoush, (Twitter: @RaneemHannoush) describes her return to Egypt this summer. She went to conduct research for her dissertation. But ...
How Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Lost (Control Of) The Plot 24 Jul 2013 | 06:48 pm
Stranger Than Fiction? Cumberbatch as Assange Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have tried to disrupt the official American version of reality so perhaps it’s a kind of poetic justice for a Hollywood stud...
The challenge of reporting an unreported world 20 Jul 2013 | 10:37 am
Jenny Kleeman’s unreported world This report by Polis Summer School student David R Myles on how one foreign correspondent deals with the unique challenges of invetigating original stories around the...
Reporting Sri Lanka – The Truth That Wasn’t There 17 Jul 2013 | 01:42 pm
Guy Gunaratne in Sri Lanka During the Sri Lankan civil war an international media ban meant the conflict was largely unrecorded or witnessed by outsiders. Most ‘news’ was either rumours or filtered b...
How audience data can improve content as well as traffic (Polis Summer School guest blog) #PolisSs 16 Jul 2013 | 03:04 pm
The Guardian is no longer (just) a newspaper and it’s no longer (just) British. In a globalised online market its content finds it way to readers through a variety of platforms and channels around the...
New narratives for the digital age (Polis Summer School guest blog) #PolisSS 14 Jul 2013 | 04:08 pm
Is the future of newspaper narrative? The New York Times’ interative feature article Snow fall has won all the accolades but it’s just one of the many new ways that this very traditional newspapers i...
Stories For Change: is online campaigning the new politics or just noise? 12 Jul 2013 | 11:17 am
On Thursday Katherine Sladden, a campaigner at Change.org, presented “Stories that make change” to the Polis LSE Summer School. Here’s Ngozi Chuku’s report on the talk and her reflections on online ca...
