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September 2024

Financial journalism the failing watchdog

It has been long since established that the press have a responsibility to the public good, one such responsibility is to act as the fourth state, a watchdog over those with position and power. But when England hit financial crisis in 2008 the financial press were quick to report something they had failed to predict. Surely with their position to oversee the comings and goings of the financial world they should have foreseen what was about to unfold in their capacity as a watchdog, but they did not.

Sensitivity in journalism sees an end to objectivity

This week I had the opportunity to sit in on a lecture by Millca Pesic the Executive Director of the Media Diversity Institute. Media Diversity is an institute that works internationally to encourage responsible media coverage of diversity. ‘It aims to prevent the media from intentionally or unintentionally spreading prejudice, intolerance and hatred which can lead to social tensions, disputes and violent conflict’ (Media Diversity Institute, 2014)

In the name of the people by lara pawson

Bob Geldof and the BBC boys club

Is objectivity in journalism dead, or was it never really possible? Lara Pawson an author, freelancer, former BBC Journalist and Foreign correspondent says No it is not. Lara tells a story of how she went into Angola with an almost romantic view of life where she believed in objectivity and that reporting could make a real difference, but it seems as if living there and working in the industry shattered her illusions and left her thinking that objectivity is not possible.

Dictated Journalism from the British Red Cross

Today I had the pleasure of being in a lecture given by Guest speaker Henry Makiwa: his topic was the sometimes difficult relationship between journalists and NGOs/charities.

This World, Rwanda’s Untold Story is genocide denial in a documentary

The day after Rwanda’s untold story was aired on the BBC for the first time it’s director John Conway came to give us a lecture on the making of the controversial documentary. Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide the documentary revealed new evidence that opposes the accepted story of what happened. In Rwanda it is illegal to challenge the story and perpetrators face incarceration for doing so.