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Friday 12 September 2008 at Sheffield University
Guest speakers…
Nick Davies, investigative journalist and author of Flat Earth News (2008), subtitled: “An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media.”
Charlie Beckett, an award-winning journalist and Director of the London School of Economics media think-tank Polis, who is author of SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World (2008)….“a passionate and controversial defence of the social value of journalism…a realistic manifesto for how the virtues and the business of traditional journalism can be reborn.”
Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication and Director of Research at the Institute of Communication Studies, Leeds University, whose projects include a study on public trust in the news media, and whose books include Them and Us: how the media frames public discourse (2008), co-authored with K Ross.
The event will include:
- Academic papers on Privacy 2.0 - ethical journalism in a world without secrets; Journalism & media convergence - a report on the work of the government’s Convergence Think Tank; Local newspapers and the Internet - can the new media re-connect communities?; Seeding doubt: how sceptics use new media to delay action on climate change.
- Plus the AJE AGM, including election of the AJE exec committee and officers.
To see the day’s programme in full, plus details of a pre-conference social gathering on the evening of Thursday 11 September, click here.
For details of the conference venue, directions, accommodation and wider Sheffield, click here.
The conference fee is a mere £15, which includes lunch, payable on the day. Can you afford to miss it?
Please email AJE co-treasurer Mark Hanna on
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if you plan to come. We hope you do!
The Association for Journalism Education represents 44 universities in
the UK and Ireland. More than 350 journalism educators are included in
this institutional membership.
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